''Chervonyi Shliach'' () was a political and literary-scientific monthly that was founded in 1923 in

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. It continued to be published until February 1936. The first directors of the magazine were prominent Ukrainian statesmen,

Hryhoriy Hrynko Hryhoriy Fedorovych Hrynko (; in Shtepivka – March 15, 1938) was a Soviet Ukrainian statesman who held high office in the government of the Soviet Union. He served as finance minister of the Soviet Union in Moscow, from 1930 to 1937, replacin ...

, who was replaced, due to his transfer to Moscow sometime in mid 1923, by Oleksandr Shumsky. Shumsky was fired from the position as well as the position of People's Commissar of Education in 1926 for nationalistic deviation. For a short period of time the position of director was given to

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and

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, who were eventually displaced for nationalistic deviations. In 1927 the magazine was headed by

Volodymyr Zatonsky Volodymyr Petrovych Zatonsky (; July 27, 1888 – July 29, 1938) was a Soviet Union, Soviet politician, academic, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Communist Party activist, full member of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences (from 1929) ...

. The magazine published the work of major Ukrainian writers and journalists such as

Ivan Kulyk Ivan Yulianovych Kulyk (; born Izrail Yudelevych Kulyk; January 14, 1897 – October 10, 1937) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, translator, diplomat and Communist Party activist. He also wrote under the names "R. Rolinato" and "Vasyl Rolenko". B ...

Pavlo Tychyna Pavlo Hryhorovych Tychyna (; – September 16, 1967) was a major Ukrainians, Ukrainian poet, translator, publicist, public activist, academician, and statesman. He composed the lyrics to the Anthem of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Lif ...

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, V. Yurynets, and many others. During the 1920s the magazine published works representative of a variety of political orientations and fields of literature, art, journalism, history, economy, etc. The magazine reflected on its pages both the weak and strong in the processes of Ukrainian cultural Renaissance of the time. The closing down of the magazine ''Chervonyi Shliakh'' was one of the last acts for the liquidation of a pluralistic cultural understanding. It was succeeded by the ''Literary Journal'', which became a voice for socialist realism.

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