Ukrainian popular brochures prepress practicesat turn of 19th-20th centuries (based on materials of letters to Mykhailo Komarov)

Abstract

The goal of the reserch. Based on the materials of the letters to Mykhailo Komarov, to analyze the practices of preparation of the Ukrainian popular brochures to the print in the context of the network communications of Ukrainian intellectuals in the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century. Methodology of the study offers combining of bibliological and historical and anthropological methods with model of intellectual networks, adapted by Iryna Kolesnyk for the study of the Ukrainian social movement. Scientific novelty. The applied methodological tools of analysis reveal the source potential of the letters to Mykhailo Komarov for study of the ways of social interaction of Ukrainian intellectuals created the conditions for prints in the native language for a wide readership. Conclusions. The data available in Mykhailo Komarov’s epistolary provides the information about the prepress practices of the popular brochures as a sphere of multilevel network communication of Ukrainian intellectuals, which is based on the cultural tradition of publishing activities coordinationin the Dnieper Ukraine and Galicia. It manifested itself in (semi) professional cooperation - competitions between the individuals and the publishing centers; informal camaraderie; interactions through Hromadas and the Common Ukrainian Non-Party Democratic Organization. The attitude of the Ukrainian activists to the popular editions as to the way to constitute the Ukrainian cultural space and the need to counteract censorship restrictions conditioned the collegial management of the existing manuscript fond; the creation of a common information field for the effective distribution of the censored manuscripts between publishers; the search for the ways of cooperation with the censorship authorities, governmental structures, land institutions and commercial publishers.

Keywords

• source studies, mykhailo komarov, popular brochures, network communications, cooperation in the communities, ukrainian intellectuals, “kyiv union” (“vik”), “charitable society for the socially useful and cheap print”.