Chervone Stolittia
Chervone Stolittia is a 2005 non-fiction book by Ukrainian philosopher and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine academician Myroslav Popovych.
Reception
The Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine characterizes Chervone stolittia as one of Popovych's fundamental works, devoted to a diagnosis of the era of the twentieth century. In a 2018 article in the scholarly journal Filosofska dumka, philosopher Viktor Kozlovskyi described Chervone stolittia as Popovych's grandiose epic and argued it could be treated as the author's opus magnum. In a 2005 review in Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, historian Yurii Shapoval highlighted the book's three-crisis structure and Popovych's aim of seeking the meaning of twentieth century history rather than writing a conventional narrative history.
Overview
Popovych frames Chervone stolittia as an attempt at a philosophy of history, emphasizing interpretation of meaning alongside the moral dimension of historical experience. The book uses twentieth century European history as its main context. The book covers the experience of communist totalitarianism and includes discussion of disputed episodes in Ukrainian history and memory. It has detailed coverage the Ukrainian Revolution, the Holodomor, the Great Terror, the Second World War and the UPA, and the fate of Ukrainian culture in Soviet Ukraine, the diaspora, and during perestroika.