Sixtiers Museum Collection

The “Sixtiers Museum” Collection is located in a small museum in Kyiv, Ukraine in a building belonging to the Ukrainian political party Rukh. Nadia Svitlychna and Mykola Plakhotniuk founded this museum as way of honouring and documenting the struggles of a cohort of Soviet Ukrainian dissidents during the 1960s-1980s. Included in the permanent exhibition are paintings, graphics, sculptures, embroidery and other artworks produced by artists affiliated with the sixtiers movement. The museum also displays the poems, letters and literary works of the writers in their midst, as well as their typewriters, handcrafted items made while in the GULag, or clothes worn while living in exile, like Svitlychna’s own camp uniform. Also figuring prominently are posters for events and exhibitions organized by this group. The guided tour is a moving, concise rendition of their struggle, aimed at the museum’s target audiences, young students, scholars, and the general public.
These materials depict the lives of a dynamic group of Soviet Ukrainians engaged in a principled creative and ideological struggle with the Soviet regime in the 1960s and 1970s. They were poets, artists, graphic designers, historians, doctors, and even a Soviet army official, all of whom became deeply involved in human rights activism under late socialism. Many were members of large Soviet institutions—like the Ukrainian writers and artist unions, the Literary Institute in Kyiv, the Soviet armed forces. The Soviet government’s ideological retrenchment after Khrushchev transformed these dissidents, who had worked hard to try and reform the system and make it more humane, into individuals in open conflict with the authorities.

位于乌克兰基辅一座隶属于乌克兰政治党派‘鲁赫’的建筑物内，‘六级博物馆’藏品收藏于基辅的一座小型博物馆中。该博物馆由纳迪亚·斯维特利奇娜和米哈伊洛·普拉霍特尼乌克共同创建，旨在缅怀并记录20世纪60至80年代一群苏联乌克兰持不同政见者的斗争历程。永久展览中陈列有与六级运动相关的艺术家创作的绘画、版画、雕塑、刺绣以及其他艺术作品。博物馆还展示了该群体中作家们的诗歌、信件和文学作品，以及他们在古拉格狱中手工制作的物品、流亡生活时穿着的服装，例如斯维特利奇娜自己的营服。此外，该馆还突出展示了该组织举办的各类活动和展览的海报。导览之旅是对他们斗争历程的动人而简洁的演绎，旨在面向博物馆的目标受众——青年学生、学者及公众。

这些资料描绘了一群充满活力的苏联乌克兰人，他们在20世纪60年代和70年代与苏联政权进行了一场原则性的创意和意识形态斗争。他们是诗人、艺术家、图形设计师、历史学家、医生，甚至包括一名苏联军方官员，所有这些人都深深卷入了晚社会主义时期的人权运动。许多人曾是大型苏联机构的成员——如乌克兰作家和艺术家联盟、基辅的文学研究所、苏联武装力量。赫鲁晓夫之后的苏联政府意识形态收缩，使得这些致力于改革制度、使其更加人道化的持不同政见者，转变为与当局公开对抗的个体。