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Monument-bust of A.M. Gorky
Full name of the monument :

Monument-bust of A.M. Gorky

Region :
Poltava region
Address of the monument :
the village of Verkhnya Manuylivka
Status :
Historical monument of local significance
Monument installation year (s) (if available) :
1968 р.
Time classification according to the installation epoch :
Soviet period (1922-1991)
Person/event, object the monument is dedicated to :
real person(s)
Gender :
male
Social status :
intellectuals
Material :
mixed materials
Type of art composition :
one-figure composition
Artistic approach :
figurative art
Main text, additional text (if available) :
Yes
A. M. Gorky 1868-1936
Language(s) of the text :
Ukrainian
Russian
Narrative commemorates :
Imperial era
The preservation state of the monument at the time of the research :
dismantled
Institution responsible for maintenance :
Kozelshchyna community
Institution’s website :
https://kozelshynska.gromada.org.ua/
Free text that contains data valid for interpretation :
Maxim Gorky (real name Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov) is a Russian communist ‘proletarian’ writer, one of the leading ideologues of the communist regime. One of the co-creators of the communist slanderous campaign against the leader of the Ukrainian liberation movement and fighter for independence, the head of the UPR Directorate, Symon Petliura. He took part in the trial of Petliura's killer, spread slander about his alleged anti-Semitism, and defended Bolshevik killer Samuel Schwartzbard. Gorky was one of the communist propagandists who rooted the concepts of ‘Petliurism’ and ‘Petliurists’ in the mass consciousness as ‘hostile, bourgeois, anti-Bolshevik phenomena’. He denied the right of the Ukrainian language to exist, actively collaborated with the NKVD, and glorified its work. He called the Ukrainian language ‘Ukrainian dialect’. On 23 June, a bust of the Russian writer was removed in Verkhnia Manuylivka. It was the last monument to this figure in the Poltava region.