Ivan Djuba

Ivan Djuba 2004

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Іва́н Миха́йлович Дзю́ба
Transl. :	Ivan Mychajlovyč Dzjuba
Transcr. :	Ivan Mychajlowytsch Djuba
Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Ива́н Миха́йлович Дзю́ба
Transl .:	Ivan Michajlovič Dzjuba
Transcr .:	Ivan Mikhailovich Djuba

Ivan Djuba; official photo of the KGB after his arrest in 1973

Ivan Mychajlowytsch Dsyuba (born July 26, 1931 in Mykolaivka , Donetsk Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian literary critic , author, social activist, politician and Soviet dissident . He was Ukraine's second minister of culture from 1992 to 1994 .

Life

Ivan Dzjuba attended high school in Dokuchayevsk and studied Russian language and literature for teaching between 1949 and 1953 at the Faculty of Russian Philology of the Donetsk Pedagogical Institute . From 1953 to 1956 he was a doctoral student at the Institute of Literature at the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. Between 1957 and 1962 he worked as an editor of the Ukrainian magazine Wittschysna ( Вітчизна ). From 1959 he was a member of the Union of Writers of Ukraine .

Together with Vyacheslav Chornovil and Vasyl Stus , Ivan Dzjuba organized the first public protest in the modern history of Ukraine when they opposed the imprisonment of Ukrainian intellectuals at the premiere of the film Fire Horses (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors) on September 4, 1965 in the Kiev cinema demonstrated. In April 1968 he was one of the initiators of protest letter 139 in Kiev , in which 139 scholars and cultural workers wrote an open letter to the Soviet leadership to campaign for compliance with law and democracy and against the illegal detention of dissidents.

For his book Internationalism or Russification? ( Ukrainian Інтернаціоналізм чи русифікація? ), which spread rapidly via samizdat and led to a downright Dzjuba cult among the intellectuals of Ukraine , he was accused of undermining Soviet friendship and sentenced to 5 years in prison and 5 years in exile. He was a political prisoner in the Soviet Union from 1972 to 1973 and was then pardoned with the support of Oleg Antonov .

Since 1992 he has been an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and between 1999 and 2001 he was chairman of the Committee for the National Prize of Ukraine Taras Shevchenko . From 1998 on, he was the chief editor of the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukraine in the 20th Century). Djuba wrote 25 books, including Between Politic and Literature in 1998 , Thirst in 2001 and Trap in 2003 .

Honors

Djuba received numerous honors. Amongst other things

• on February 27, 1991 he received the Taras Shevchenko Prize, the State Prize of Ukraine.
• on July 26, 2001 he was named Hero of Ukraine by Decree No. 567/2001 of the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma .
• on January 16, 2009 he was awarded the Ukrainian Order of Freedom .

Web links

Commons : Iwan Dzjuba  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Biography of Ivan Djuba in the Library of Ukrainian Literature (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography Iwan Dzjuba on Politrada.com ; accessed on July 27, 2016 (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Biography Iwan Dsjuba on "Held der Ukraine" ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on July 27, 2016 (Ukrainian) 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Article on Dziuba, Ivan in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on July 27, 2016 (English)
4. ↑ website of the cinema ; accessed on July 27, 2016 (German)
5. ↑ Kiev Letter 1968 ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. with all signatories; accessed on October 22, 2016 (Russian)  
6. ↑ Biography in the "Virtual Museum of the Dissident Movement of Ukraine" - People of the Ukrainian National Movement, Iwan Dzjuba ; accessed on July 27, 2016 (Ukrainian)
7. ↑ ^{a b} Biography Iwan M. Dsjuba in Who is who? ; accessed on July 27, 2016 (German)