La Renaissance fusillée à la bulac : pour une histoire politique de la constitution des collections ukrainiennes en France

This article traces the genesis and development of the Ukrainian collections held at the bulac, which stem from the former holdings of the Library of Oriental Languages and the Paris Institute of Slavonic Studies. It explores how, in a context marked by the exile of intellectual elites and the centralising policies of the ussr, both institutional and individual actors contributed to the emergence of Ukrainian studies in France. Attention is given to the legacy of Élie Borschak, a mediator between Ukrainian and French scholarly circles, as well as to the presence in the bulac collections of publications from the Ukrainian Executed Renaissance, a period of literary and artistic effervescence, which started in the 1920s, before being brutally interrupted by Stalinist repression in the 1930s. Through a cross-analysis of provenance, political context, and institutional trajectories, the study shows how French libraries became custodians of an intellectual memory long subjected to censorship, while highlighting the historiographical and symbolic significance of these collections.