Borys Hrinchenko's Journalism and Publicism in the Context of Modernity
Borys Hrinchenko's publicism is the result of his social and political activity. Publicistic genres – essays, feuilletons, critical articles, polemical and debatable articles, and even journalistic notes are the core of journalism. Publicism in any periodical creates the face of this publication, declares its affiliation to a particular ideology, the creation of the ideal of the best-organized society. All these tasks in the publicism of this person are outlined very clearly. Communist ideology treated Borys Hrinchenko as an ideologue of bourgeois nationalism, a "singer of Petliurism", a cultural trader, and the author of the "small business theory". This is an "achievement" of the Soviet methodology. Until 1917, nationalism meant patriotism, not chauvinism. Cosmopolitanism was interpreted as internationalism. Over time, the essence of the terms has changed to the opposite. The history of Hrinchenko's publicism testifies that he defended the national path of Ukraine's development determined by Shevchenko and saw the essence of his life in this path realization. He, with some reservations, leaned towards the ideology of radicalism and created the Ukrainian Radical Party to implement the program of national development and nation-building, and later merged with L. Zhebunov's Democratic Party into the Ukrainian Radical Democratic Party. Among about 20 party pamphlets, several were written by Hrinchenko, and he also compiled (№ 7) a collection of poetic publicism, or more precisely, journalistic poetry, The Red Flower (1905). In 1892, Boris Hrinchenko made the final ideological and cultural-scientific choice. Evidence of this is the controversy between Hrinchenko and Drahomanov about the ways of development of Ukraine and the role of Shevchenko in nation-building (Hrinchenko, 1994). These are letters from the future of Ukraine. They passed through the Ukrainian People's Republic, the Ukrainian SSR, and in 1991 received the name of the state of Ukraine. "Letters from the Dnieper Ukraine", "Galician Poems", "On the ...