“The Permanent Revolution” and “the Asian Renaissance”: Parallels between the Political Conceptions of Leon Trotsky and Mykola Khvylovy

摘要

Mykola Khvylovy was one of the most popular Ukranian writers and thinkers of the 1920s (the “Executed Renaissance” period). His ideas had a great influence on Ukranian intellectuals of that time. This article shows parallels between the political views of Mykola Khvylovy and Leon Trotsky in such important questions as the problem of the “westernization” of culture, the peasant question, the role of the person in history and perspectives of the world revolution.