ABSTRACT This article examines the working-class audience in Soviet Ukraine and the changes in its reading appetites during the 1920s. Under the Soviet nationalities policy of korenizatsiia introduced in 1923, the print-runs of Ukrainian-language literary products increased significantly. Nonetheless, as this article argues, those numerous publications often did not reach Ukrainian readers and if they did, they could hardly satisfy the interest appetites of an ever-growing Ukrainian audience. As the book reviews collected in the second half of the 1920s showed, the worker readers were interested in a certain type of literature – entertaining, easy to comprehend, dealing with contemporary issues and characters – that was not yet available in Ukrainian. Nevertheless, once that literature began to emerge in the late 1920s, the interest in contemporary books in Ukrainian increased. By examining every aspect of reading in Ukrainian – production, dissemination and consumption of the printed word – this article highlights the decisive role of Soviet readership in determining future official Soviet Ukrainian literature. The case of Soviet Ukraine emphasizes regional specifics and introduces an important language component to the Bolshevik reading revolution of the 1920s to early 1930s, largely ignored in the scholarship.

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乌克兰语阅读：苏联早期乌克兰的工人阶级和大众文学

摘要 本文考察了苏维埃乌克兰的工人阶级读者及其在 1920 年代阅读兴趣的变化。在 1923 年实行的苏联民族政策下，乌克兰语文学产品的印刷量显着增加。尽管如此，正如本文所指出的，那些数量众多的出版物往往没有到达乌克兰读者，即使到达了，也很难满足不断增长的乌克兰读者的兴趣。正如 1920 年代后半期收集的书评所显示的那样，工人读者对某种类型的文学感兴趣——有趣、易于理解、处理当代问题和人物——这在乌克兰语中是不可用的。然而，一旦这种文学在 1920 年代后期开始出现，对乌克兰语当代书籍的兴趣增加了。通过考察乌克兰语阅读的各个方面——印刷文字的生产、传播和消费——本文强调了苏联读者在决定未来苏联官方乌克兰文学方面的决定性作用。苏维埃乌克兰的案例强调了地区特征，并为 1920 年代至 1930 年代初的布尔什维克阅读革命引入了重要的语言成分，但在学术界基本上被忽视了。