Executed light. Actor Stepan Shahaida as a victim of Stalinist terror
Journal: Culture of Ukraine
Year: 2024

The article examines the life and work of one of the leading Ukrainian theater and film actors Stepan Shahaida (1896–1938) in the discourses of the Cultural Renaissance of Ukraine in the 1920s and the historical trauma caused under the conditions of the Bolshevik terror. The Ukrainian Renaissance — an important phenomenon of the XX century — became possible thanks to the NEP, Ukrainianization and some autonomization in the economic and cultural life of the Ukrainian SSR. Stepan Shahaida — one of