The Executed Renaissance, or Red Renaissance, was a generation of Ukrainian language poets, writers, and artists of the 1920s and early 1930s who lived in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and wеre killed by the Soviet regime. Following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Lenin's nationality policies of Korenizatsiya favored the revival of minority and heritage languages, encouraging them to be taught in the schools and published and providing them with material support and visibility. The poets and writers of the Ukrainianization generation were often residents of the Slovo Building in Kharkiv, which was then the capital of Soviet Ukraine.