FEATURES OF THE DISCLOSURE OF THE ROLE AND PLACE OF UKRAINIAN PEOPLE IN THE SOCIAL AREA OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY IN THE IMPACT ROAD OF IVAN FRANCO

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the research of Ivan Franko’s views on Ukrainian peasantry, its place, role and social condition in the hierarchy of Austrian-Hungarian Empire in the context of the development of the subject-matter and problems in the Ukrainian literature in the second half of XIX – and the beginning of XX centuries. While analyzing the writer’s prose and journalistic works which belong to different periods of his creative activity, specific aspects of the establishment and transformation of the authors’ approach to the creation of a collective image of peasantry and its individual representatives have been found out. Special attention is paid to the nature of the interaction of national intelligentsia and peasantry during the establishment of a modern nation, and the search for the ways how to overcome archaic trends and to lead Ukrainian village to a new epoch of the civilization development, marked with the conflict of industrial and traditional society.