Ethnic history of the East Slavs in the mirror of modern historiography (Ivangorodsky K. Ethnic History of the East Slavs in Contemporary Historiography (Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian Discourses) – Cherkasy: Ed. Yu. Chabanenko, 2018 – 422 pp.)

Abstract

The article reviews Konstantin Ivangorodsky's monograph on the analysis of the ethnic history of the East Slavs in contemporary Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian historiographical discourses. The article analyses the structure of the book, content, its theoretical and methodological foundations. The innovative moments of the book were highlighted as well. The article notes discussed issues and the points that the author could have mentioned. It has been concluded that K. Ivangorodsky's monograph is a prominent phenomenon of modern historical science: it is diverse and it impresses with an extensive historiographic material that was collected and elaborated. The monograph's conclusions provide a qualitatively new understanding of the specifics of the interdisciplinary perception of the East Slavs ethnic history problems in Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian historiographies.