Social-political and Literary-artistic Periodicals in S. Efremov Youth Diary

Globalization processes in the world, which manifested themselves at the turn of the XX–XXI centuries, significantly affected the literary process: fiction began to lose its position, it began to be rapidly replaced by documentary literature, which includes memo­irs, which has a well-developed genre system, leading genres of which is a diary. Gradually, this genre of non-fiction literature began to emerge from the periphery of scientific stu­dies. S. Efremov’s diary, which was still a little-known youth work of the scientist, allowed to better understand his figure, the formation of worldviews, testified to the range of periodi­cals he read. The purpose of the article is to find out the periodicals range that the author of the diary regularly read; determining his likes and dislikes of the periodicals in Russia and Aust­ria-Hungary at the time; outlining the origin of cooperation with individual magazines; tracing the defense of Ukrainocentric positions in the controversy with Ukrainophobes in Russian periodicals, outlining steps to establish publishing activities. In the absence of Ukrainian-language publications in Russia, the diary’s author sought to read progressive Russian-language magazines and newspapers, including "Russkoe Bogatstvo" ("Russian Wealth") and "Kievskoe Slovo" ("Kyiv Word") (after changes in the editorial board). At S. Efremov initiative, a union was organized at the Kyiv Theological Seminary, which collectively subscribed to progressive periodicals. An important role in awakening the national consciousness of Ukrainians was played by Lviv editions "Zorya" ("Star"), "Pravda" ("Truth"), "Dzvinok" ("Bell"), with which S. Yefremov sought to establish cooperation, where his early art and journalistic works were published. S. Yefremov’s youth diary is a successful first draft of a future Ukrainian scientist, journalist, publicist, publisher, editor, statesman and politician, organizer of science in Ukraine