The Sixtiers writer Yevhen Sverstyuk

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2012.

The documentary "Ukrainian Dream: Those Ten Years. Yevhen Sverstyuk" is dedicated to the activities of the Ukrainian writer Yevhen Sverstyuk in the 1980s and 1990s.

On the video: chronicles of the 1970s, Kyiv, various plans; a speech by writer Mykola Bazhan in 1981; an interview with Yevhen Sverstyuk, he talks about his activities, the restrictions of Soviet power, the political influence of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Yuri Andropov; Soviet chronicles of the 1980s, Kyiv, political demonstrations; Yevhen Sverstyuk talks about Vasyl Stus, his death, the influence of the poet; the opening of the memorial at the Bukryna bridgehead in Kyiv.

The sixties writer, essayist Yevhen Sverstyuk comments.

Host — Yuriy Shapoval.

Reference: Yevhen Sverstyuk is a Ukrainian literary critic, essayist and philosopher, one of the leading figures of the Sixties movement and an active participant in Ukrainian samizdat. His works, in particular the essay "The Cathedral on the Scaffold" and other journalistic texts, shaped the intellectual discourse of resistance to Russification and became an important factor in the development of Ukrainian humanitarian thought. After 1991, he played a significant role in the processes of decommunization, headed the Ukrainian PEN Club and edited the newspaper "Nasha Vira".