Renaissance of the national historiography and Bohdan Khmelnitsky image changing factors at the edge f 80-90's of the XX century

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Renaissance of the national historiography and Bohdan Khmelnitsky image changing factors at the edge f 80-90's of the XX century

Journal Title: Eminak - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 3

Abstract

The revival of establishing the image of Bohdan Khmelnytsky and his nation-building activities in the patriotic historiography began in the second half of the 1980s. Till this time there were almost no studies devoted to the problems of Ukrainian statehood in middle XVII century. But the exception was the questions of diplomatic activity of the Government of B. Khmelnitsky. Proclaimed in 1985 by M. Gorbachev «glasnist» and political liberalization began to bring unexpected positive results. Therefore, the emergence of new historiographical facts about B. Khmelnitsky and the formation of its newest establishing image should be considered in the context of the indissoluble political development of the society of that time. So professor S. Kulchytsky testifies that the rebuilding in the historical science had been actually unfolded in 1988-1989. First, in some newspaper and magazine articles on social and political themes, then – in brochures and scientific journals they had begun to reconsider some stereotypical positions of the national history. In 1990-1991 the first monographic works were published and written from the standpoint of new thinking. In historical science there had been the gradual and the comprehensive retreat from class concepts and principles of Marxist methodology. Above all, it turned out that the researchers had stopped to rely on the works of classics of Marxism-Leninism, the decisions of party congresses, conferences, etc. The first historiographical facts of redefining the image of B. Khmelnitsky and the National revolution of the mid- XVII century appeared in the second half of the 1980s. If in Soviet times the figure of Hetman was a symbol of the ideological class struggle and unity of two fraternal peoples, then in modern Ukrainian historiography B. Khmelnytsky took the place of an apologist for the Ukrainian national state-building of the middle of XVII century.

Authors and Affiliations

Yuri Stepanchuk

Keywords

historiography national historians B. Khmelnytsky image social and political reforms

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