Executed Renaissance
The Executed Renaissance (Ukrainian: Розстріляне відродження, romanized: Rozstriliane vidrodzhennia), or Red Renaissance (Ukrainian: Червоний ренесанс, romanized: Chervonyi renesans), was a generation of Ukrainian artists and intellectuals of the 1920s and early 1930s in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic who produced significant works in literature, philosophy, painting, music, theater, cinema, education, and science before being mostly destroyed during Stalin's Great Terror. The 1920s were a period of national cultural flourishing in Soviet Ukraine, enabled by the collapse of the Russian Empire and the end of imperial censorship, along with the early Soviet policy of nativization.