SUMMARY:

This is a contribution to the forum “Conceptualizing National Modernism” inspired by the publication of the new book by Galina Babak and Alexander Dmitriev, The Atlantis of Soviet National Modernism: The Formal Method in Ukraine (1920s–Early 1930s) (Moscow: NLO, 2021). Oksana Pashko and Andrii Portnov offer a comprehensive review of the book, identifying its main topics and methodological premises and discussing them in a broad historical and historiographical context.