SUMMARY:

This text introduces a little-known 1925 article by the Ukrainian critic Feliks Iakubovs’kyi, written during the Soviet indigenization campaign and reflecting a contemporary perception of Viktor Shklovsky as embracing superficial stereotypes regarding Ukrainian culture. The introduction also traces Iakubovs’kyi’s biographical arc – from navigating the asymmetry of power between Russian and Ukrainian literatures to his role in official state censorship during the 1930s and his eventual death during the Stalinist repressions in 1937.