The reflection of historical events of 1917−1919 in fiction works as one of the current problems of modern philological education

Abstract

The national liberation movement of 1917–1920 was in the focus of description in numerous works of Ukrainian writers of both early 20th century and our contemporaries. Forming process of the national patriotic consciousness of our contemporaries is impossible without the works where authors by means of disclosing the characters fates described historical processes of their contemporary times. Development of the independent Hutsul Republic in 1918–1919 was reflected in the works of U. Samchuk and V. Grendzh-Dons’koy. The authors depicted the artistic chronicle of their native land which for the first time in the history of Ukraine managed to become an independent state. Hutsul Republic in the writers’ meaning became a model of the “new” “discovered paradise” for the other peoples tired by centuries of searching their own state. Despite the defeat of Hutsul Republic, in showing the future of their land the writers hold joint views and opinions on emerging national intelligence among young Ukrainian patriots bred by Hutsulshchyna land on examples of the whole Ukrainian national patriotism for the great gains for the sake of the new Motherland Ukraine. The potential of historical fiction, especially on the education of national patriotism in modern students, can play a major role in correcting the situation of the general decline of the reader’s culture, the rise of the prestige of humanities, the opening of modern youth spiritual treasures of artistic words.