*Mizhnarodnyi biohrafichnyi slovnyk dysydivtiv krain Tsentralnoi ta Skhidnoi Yevropy i kolyyshnoho SRSR*. Vol. 1. Ukraina. Part 1. [International Biographical Dictionary of Dissidents from Central and Eastern Europe and the Former USSR. Vol. 1. Ukraine. Part 1]. – Kharkiv: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group; “Prava liudyny.” – 2006. – pp. 1–516; Part 2. – pp. 517–1020. Part 3. – 2011. – pp. 1021-1380; Bilokin: pp. 1050-1053. https://museum.khpg.org/1289482256
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BILOKIN, SERHIY IVANOVYCH (born July 1, 1948, Kyiv)
Historian, source studies specialist, Candidate of Philological Sciences (1978), Doctor of Historical Sciences (2000), Head of the Center for Cultural Studies at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2002). Full member of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences (New York, 2006). The youngest member of the Club of Creative Youth (KTM). A participant in the Sixtiers movement.
From a family of botanist scholars. His maternal grandfather, a sworn member of the OUN(b), died in a Kharkiv prison. His paternal grandfather, a priest of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, was imprisoned several times. Serhiy graduated from the history faculty of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University (1971) and completed postgraduate studies at the M. Lomonosov Moscow State University (1974).
In December 1963, he recited political works at a poetry evening of the Club of Creative Youth (KTM, Zhovtnevyi Palace) and participated in most of its events. He was close to Alla HORSKA and Ivan SVITLYCHNY, about whom he later wrote memoirs. He read and distributed forbidden literature. After receiving three photocopies of M. Prokop’s work “Ukraine and the Ukrainian Policy of Moscow” (Munich, 1956) from HORSKA, he passed them on. He gave a perfect-quality copy (albeit with a torn cover) of Yuriy Lavrinenko’s anthology “The Executed Renaissance” (Paris, 1959), which he had received from her, to Yevhen SVERSTIUK (it was returned tattered, but in the cover of “History of the CPSU”) and O.S. Kompan, who recounted giving the book to Leopold Yashchenko, who literally wept that he could have lived his life without knowing what had happened in our culture. He donated this copy, as a memento of the era, to the Museum of Literature for the HORSKA and SVITLYCHNY exhibition. He was almost the only one to photograph the 1964 fire at the former National Library of Ukraine (now the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine) and, in its immediate aftermath, collected factual details about this terrible event. For decades, he has painstakingly gathered materials on the history of cultural heritage losses.
His candidate’s dissertation was titled “The Subject and Tasks of Literary Source Studies” (1978). His doctoral dissertation was “Mass Terror as a Means of State Governance in the USSR, 1917-1941: A Source-Based Study” (2000).
He is the author of hundreds of publications on the history of Ukraine. Since 1969, he has published numerous articles about repressed figures of Ukrainian culture and not a single one about official figures. He succeeded in getting many articles published in the normative “Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia” (URE), which were not planned in its lexicon. From 1984, he organized evenings dedicated to M. Boichuk, H. Narbut, and M. Zerov, which revealed “unknown pages” of Ukraine’s cultural heritage and enjoyed wide popularity. As I. DZIUBA wrote in 1989, “Perhaps, under even slightly more favorable, more normal conditions, S. Bilokin would have done an incredible amount. But even what he did—oppressed, ‘downsized’ from his positions, lacking official status—commands respect and gratitude. And amazement…” In 1988, he published the first positive article about historian M. Hrushevsky, which provoked the indignation of V. Shcherbytsky and vitriolic articles in the journal Komunist Ukrainy and the newspaper Radianska Ukraina. He delivered a speech at the rehabilitation evening for Mykhailo Boichuk at the Union of Artists.
In the era of independence, he researches the history of Bolshevik repressions, culture, the Church, and the old aristocracy. Having studied the mechanisms of mass terror, he moved on to other levels and topics: “Little-Known Sources on the History of Mass Terror,” “The Holodomor, Different Types and Methods of Terror,” “Ukrainian Humanities Scholarship during the Bolshevik Regime,” “Bykivnia and Vinnytsia in the Historiography of Terror,” and “The Parallel History of the UkrSSR: The Bolsheviks and Ukrainian Cultural Heritage.”
For decades, he has collected books (around 50,000 volumes in total) and archival materials. His collection includes the family archive of Borys Matushevsky, a typescript of Yuriy Yurkevych’s memoirs, the papers of Natalia Pavlushkova and Halyna Bondarenko, the archive of Kost Turkal (imprisoned in the case of the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine and its predecessor, the Committee for the Liberation of Ukraine), the manuscript of Yaroslava Muzyka’s memoirs about her imprisonment, and materials about repressed cultural figures, among others.
Advisor to His Holiness Patriarch Volodymyr (ROMANIUK, 1994). Initiator of the “Who’s Who in Ukraine?” series (since 1994). Author and scientific consultant for encyclopedic publications (Kyiv, Moscow, Toronto) and popular science films. Head of the Petro Mohyla Kyiv Scientific Society (1990). Member of the scholarly-methodological council of the All-Ukrainian Society of Political Prisoners and Repressed Persons (council chairman M. Shcherbak). Member of the editorial board of the scholarly quarterly Pamiatky Ukrainy (editor, the late Oleksandr Rybalko).
Bibliography:
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Zhyttia i smert Ally Horskoi [The Life and Death of Alla Horska] // Alla Horska. Chervona tin kalyny. Lysty, spohady, statti. Ed. Oleksiy Zaretskyi and Mykola Marychevskyi. – K.: Spalah LTD, 1996. – pp. 197–217.
Iz chasu, shcho zakryvavyvsia [From the Time That Bled] // Dobrookyi: Spohady pro Ivana Svitlychnoho. Ed. Leonida and Nadiya Svitlychni. – K.: Vydavnytstvo “Chas,” 1998. – pp. 305–313.
Masovyi teror yak zasib derzhavnoho upravlinnia v SRSR (1917-1941 rr.). Dжерелознавче дослідження [Mass Terror as a Means of State Governance in the USSR (1917-1941). A Source-Based Study]. – K.: Kyivske naukove tovarystvo im. Petra Mohyly, 1999. – 447 p.
Mekhanizm bolshevitskogo nasiliya: Konspekt isledovaniya [The Mechanism of Bolshevik Violence: A Research Outline]. – K., 2000. – 128 p.
Muzei Ukrainy; Zbirka P. Pototskoho: Doba, seredovyshche, zahybel [The Museum of Ukraine; P. Pototsky's Collection: The Era, Environment, Demise]. – K., 2002. – 251 p.
Na zlamakh epokhy: Spohady istoryka [At the Breaking Point of Eras: Memoirs of a Historian]. – Bila Tserkva: Vydavets Pshonkivskyi O.V., 2005. – 336 p.
Novi studii z istorii bilshovyzmu. I-III [New Studies on the History of Bolshevism. I-III]. – K., 2006. – 312 p.
Muzei Ukrainy (Zbirka P. Pototskoho): Doslidzhennia, materialy. Monohrafiia. Vyd. 3 [The Museum of Ukraine (P. Pototsky's Collection): Research, Materials. Monograph. 3rd ed.]. – K.: Nats. Kyievo-Pecherskyi istoryko-kulturnyi zapovidnyk; K.: In-t istorii Ukrainy NANU, 2006. – 476 p.
V oboroni ukrainskoi spadshchyny: Istoryk mystetstva Fedir Ernst [In Defense of Ukrainian Heritage: Art Historian Fedir Ernst]. – K., In-t istorii Ukrainy NANU, 2006. – 355 p.
Novi studii z istorii bilshovyzmu, I-VIII. Vyd. 2 rozshyr. i dop. [New Studies on the History of Bolshevism, I-VIII. 2nd ed., expanded and revised]. – K.: In-t istorii Ukrainy NANU, 2007. – 412 p.
O. Anatolii Zhurakovskyi i kyivski iosyfliany: Dokumentalne doslidzhennia [Fr. Anatoliy Zhurakovsky and the Kyiv Josephites: A Documentary Study]. – K.: In-t istorii Ukrainy NANU, 2008. – 119 p.
Dovidkova knyha z kulturnoi spadshchyny Ukrainy: Metalobibliohrafiia, zmist biohrafichnykh ta inshykh slovnykiv toshcho. Robochyi zoshyt [Reference Book on the Cultural Heritage of Ukraine: A Meta-bibliography, Contents of Biographical and Other Dictionaries, etc. A Workbook]. – K.: In-t istorii Ukrainy NANU, 2009. – 516 p.
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Kuzmenko, O.D. Serhiy Bilokin: Bibliohr. pokazhchyk. [Serhiy Bilokin: Bibliographic Index]. – 1989.
Klid, Bohdan. Istoriia i polityka: Borotba navkolo spadshchyny Mykhaila Hrushevskoho [History and Politics: The Struggle Over the Legacy of Mykhailo Hrushevsky] // Ukrainskyi istoryk. Vol. 110-115. – 1991-92. – pp. 187-190, 192-194.
Hyrych, Ihor. Oboronets i doslidnyk natsionalnoi kulturnoi spadshchyny [Defender and Researcher of the National Cultural Heritage] // Pamiatky Ukrainy. – 1998. – No. 3-4 (120-121). – pp. 139-144.
Shvydkyi, Vasyl. “Masovyi teror” S.Bilokonia i novitni pratsi z istorii holodomoru: Tekstolohichni sposterezhennia [S. Bilokin's "Mass Terror" and Recent Works on the History of the Holodomor: Textological Observations] // Ukraina XX st.: kultura, ideolohiia, polityka: Zbirnyk statei. – Issue 7. – K., 2004. – pp. 516-520.
Topachevskyi, Andriy. Ne tilky yak trahediia [Not Only as a Tragedy] // Kyiv, 2005. – No. 6. – pp. 9-12.
Ovsiienko, V. Antyradianska knyzhka [An Anti-Soviet Book] // Ovsiienko V. Svitlo liudei: Memuary ta publitsystyka. V 2 kn. Kn. II [The Light of People: Memoirs and Journalism. In 2 books. Book II]. Kharkiv – Kyiv, 2005. – pp. 155-160.
Kovalchuk, O.O. Bilokin, Serhiy Ivanovych // Entsyklopediia istorii Ukrainy. – Vol. 1. – K.: Naukova dumka, 2005. – p. 286.
Instytut istorii Ukrainy NAN Ukrainy, 1936-2006. – K., 2006.
Shevchenkivski laureaty. 1962-2007: Ents. dovidnyk / Ed. M.H. Labinskyi. 2nd ed. K., Krynytsia, 2007. – pp. 66-67: photograph.
Mizhnarodnyi biohrafichnyi slovnyk dysydivtiv krain Tsentralnoi ta Skhidnoi Yevropy i kolyyshnoho SRSR. Vol. 1. Ukraina. Part 1. – Kharkiv: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group; „Prava liudyny”. – 2006. – pp. 1–516; Part 2. – pp. 517–1020. Part 3. – 2021. – pp. 1021-1380; Bilokin: pp. 1050-1053: https://museum.khpg.org/1289482256.
Rukh oporu v Ukraini: 1960–1990. Entsyklopedychnyi dovidnyk [The Resistance Movement in Ukraine: 1960–1990. An Encyclopedic Guide] / Foreword by Osyp Zinkevych, Oles Obertas. – K.: Smoloskyp, 2010. – 804 p., 56 ill.; 2nd ed., 2012. – 896 p. + 64 ill.; Bilokin: pp. 88–89.
Entry authored by Serhiy Bilokin. Read, and bibliography checked and supplemented by V. Ovsiienko on November 11, 2010. On the KHPG website since this date.
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