About the book: 2021 / This book is the first attempt to reconstruct one of the key plots of the forced modernization of the Ukrainian culture in the 20th century - the history of literary theory and criticism in the Soviet part of Ukraine in the 1920s - early 1930s. Much has been written about the Ukrainian cultural modernization of the 1920s, but behind individual cases and ideological preferences, the big picture is sometimes not visible - the real revolution in literary thought and technology that took place under Soviet construction. This is the story of how a general revolutionary project was intertwined with the process of nation formation. “The Atlantis of Soviet National Modernism” carefully recreates the broad cultural-historical and political-ideological context of the development of Ukrainian literary criticism, taking into account the complex relationship between universal avant-garde artistic concepts and modern nationally-oriented culture. Galina Babak is a literary historian, doctoral graduate of Charles University (Prague), researcher at New Europe College (Bucharest). Alexander Dmitriev – leading researcher at IGITI named after A. V. Poletaev, associate professor at the School of Historical Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics».