THE PHENOMENON OF V. P. PETROV: CREATIVITY AND FATE
Keywords:
Viktor Platonovych Petrov, V. Domontovych, Ukraine, humanities, fiction, historiography, intelligence officer, World War II.Abstract
The paper is focused on how the phenomenon of Viktor Petrov, an outstanding Ukrainian thinker, scholar, writer of the twentieth century, was understood and studied in the time perspective. The whole spectrum of his life and work is briefly covered: scientific and fiction works, biography, portrait, worldview, scientific, organizational, pedagogical activities, epistolary heritage, documents, memoirs, and the activities as the intelligence officer during the Second World War. Most attention is drawn to the «second» and «third» periods of his life. In the post-war years, the Ukrainian immigrant community in the American occupation zone of Germany, where he was staying, respected Viktor Petrov but did not understand the plane of his scientific thinking and saw him as a scientist of the future. During the last two decades of his life in Soviet Ukraine, Viktor Petrov was not a well-known or well-respected scholar, and his fiction writing was banned and forgotten. Recognition of the phenomenon of Viktor Petrov, its fragmentary comprehension, came in Ukraine at the turn of the 20th/21st century, which was due to the change in historical realities: the freedom of man and his thinking in independent Ukraine, the victory of thinking in the categories of the new Digital Age over the categories of the past era.
The intellectual heritage of Viktor Petrov (pseudonym Domontovych) has become a part of Ukrainian culture and science. The reasons for the fragmentary representation of the phenomenon of this outstanding personality are considered. The reasons for the controversial perception of Petrov’s figure are highlighted. Three documents that are important for understanding his fate are published. The author concludes that Viktor Petrov fought for the freedom of Ukraine in his own way.
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