SHEVELIOV’S PUBLICISTIC ARTICLES ON PAPERS OF «NOVA UKRAINE» (THE PROBLEM OF CONTACY AMONG CIVILIZATIONS)

The article analizes chief motives of a series of Sheveliov’s World War II period publications, caused by the problem of contact between the East and West mentality, specifically in the Soviet and Nazi variants. Yu.Sheveliov disproves Kipling’s famous formula «the West is the West, but the East is the East». According to Ukrainian thinker’s point of view, it is only its own primitiveness, backwardness that prevents the East in its Soviet (and in Byzantine) variant from mutual understanding with the West.