New Generation (Nova generatsiia) was the monthly of Ukrainian Futurists published in Kharkiv from October 1927 to December 1930. Its founder and editor-in-chief, the poet Mykhail’ Semenko, had pioneered Ukrainian Kverofuturism (from the Latin quaero, to seek) already in 1914. In the early 1920s, Semenko, Geo Shkurupii and others in their group developed a movement they called “Panfuturism” to emphasize its synthesis of all avant-garde techniques and ideas. Positioning themselves as true Communists in the post-revolutionary situation, and highly committed to the project of the making of the new world for the new man, the Panfuturists argued that Great Art of the past—the irrational, individualist art of the bourgeoisie with its mystifying cult of genius—was at an end. It would be superseded by rational, scientific, process-based and technologically savvy new art which would permeate everyday life rather than be confined to museums and libraries. This position put the Panfuturists in conflict with the Party’s growing preference for the resuscitation of bourgeois aesthetics and artworks for proletarian use. When Semenko’s group founded New Generation as their first regular periodical in 1927, the term “Panfuturism” did not appear in the first issue. Instead, the journal aimed to promote “the theory and practice of the Left Front of the Arts,” a motto that positions the magazine politically and aesthetically, corresponding to the motto of the Russian journal “Novyi LEF” (meaning “New Left Front of the Arts”), edited by Mayakovsky. On the constructivist-style frontispiece, New Generation declares itself to be in favor of “Communism, Internationalism, Industrialism, Economic Rationalization (inventiveness, quality, austerity),” and “The Application of Universal Communist Principles to Everyday Life, Culture, Science and Technology, and Avantgarde Art.” By contrast, it declares itself in opposition to the more traditionalist groups on the Ukrainian literary and intellectual scene, which it regarded as affected by “National Narrow-Mindedness, Unprincipled Simplification, Bourgeois Fashions… Provincialism, Redneckery, Semiliteracy, Eclecticism.” Multilingual and cosmopolitan, New Generation envisioned Ukraine as a modern nation, unhampered by past traditions. It saw itself as a full-fledged participant in the European and international avant-garde movement, with no need for Russian intermediaries. Called upon to repent for its independence in 1930, New Generation resisted and was forced to fold. Many of the journal’s staff members, including Semenko and Geo Shkurupii, were shot in the purge of 1937.