Module 9: National Awakening and Early 20th Century Cultural Renaissance

1. Remember (Knowledge Retrieval)

• Define core terms: Ukrainophilism, Hromada, Prosvita, Modernism, and Theatre of Coryphaei.

• List key figures: Volodymyr Antonovych, Mykhailo Drahomanov, Lesya Ukrainka, Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky, Mykola Lysenko, and Les Kurbas.

• Recall major dates: founding of Prosvita (1868) and publication of Literaturno-Naukovyi Vistnyk.

2. Understand (Comprehension)

• Explain how the national movement transitioned from ethnographic romanticism to socio-political action.

• Summarize the role of Galicia as the "Ukrainian Piedmont" during times of tsarist censorship in Dnieper Ukraine.

• Describe how Ukrainian modernism combined European aesthetic trends with national motifs.

3. Apply (Implementation)

• Categorize primary source excerpts into ideological currents (Populist, Modernist, Social Democratic, National Democratic).

• Demonstrate how period literature (Franko, Ukrainka, Kobylyanska) reflected social justice and gender emancipation.

4. Analyze (Structural Analysis)

• Compare Drahomanov’s federalist vision with state-oriented and nationalist political frameworks.

• Analyze how the 1905 Russian Revolution expanded the Ukrainian press and Prosvita networks.

• Deconstruct the tension between Populism (narodnytstvo) and Modernism (modernizm).

5. Evaluate (Critique & Judgement)

• Assess the reach of cultural institutions (Prosvita, NTSh) among rural versus urban populations.

• Evaluate the legacy of early 20th-century cultural revival in preparing the ground for the 1917–1921 War of Independence.

6. Create (Synthesis)

• Design a thematic syllabus or exhibition on the evolution of Ukrainian arts from Populism to the Avant-Garde.

• Formulate a research essay comparing Ukraine's national revival with other East-Central European awakenings (e.g., Czech or Irish).