VAPLITE

Vilna Akademia Proletarskoi LITEratury (ВАПЛІТЕ) (Ukrainian: Вільна академія пролетарської літератури, Free Academy of Proletarian Literature) was a literary union in Ukraine.

[1] Accepting the official requirements of the Communist Party, in literary policy VAPLITE has taken an independent position and was standing on the grounds of creation the new Ukrainian literature by qualified artists who put in front of them the demand of improvement and mastering the best achievements of western European culture.

Despite agreeing to strict bureaucratic limitations made by the communist party, in questions related to literary agenda VAPLITE had an independent stance and believed in founding the new Ukrainian literature by qualified artists who aimed at self-improvement and researching and adapting best practices of Western culture.

Thanks to the contribution of Mykola Khvylovy who is considered the creator of a new worldview and ideology, in the activities of the literary association, a new idea of the image of Ukraine, the nature of Ukrainian culture and spirituality gradually began to form.

The ideological criticism of VAPLITE and Mykola Khvylovy himself intensified and became especially coordinated after the formation of Molodnyak and VUSPP (All-Ukrainian Union of Proletarian Writers).