History and historians in the regeneration of the ukrainian national and cultural revival of the second half of the XIXth – the first third of the XXth century: modern historiography

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Abstract. The purpose of the article is to systematize and analyze the studies of modern historiography, the subject of which was to study the historical thought of the Ukrainian national and cultural revival of the second half of the ХІХth – the first third of the ХХth century The study is based on a civilizational and socio-cultural methodology, a systematic scientific conceptual approach to historiographic analysis. Scientific tools of these approaches enabled to achieve the priorities to be scientific, historical, objective and logical in the coverage of historiographical facts, as well as interdisciplinarity and integration of the study results. The scientific novelty of the work is that on the basis of the analysis of the subject of contemporary historical studies the stages are distinguished and the dynamics of the newest study of the historical thought and activity of historians in the second half of the XIXth – the first third of the ХХth century are presented. They are: propedeutical and empirical (1990s), the studies of Ya. Vermenych, H. Kasianov, V. Kravchenko, H. Mernikov, Ya. Pyroh, P. Sokhan, S. Stelmakh and other historians who carried out the accumulation and conceptual analysis of the research material on the content, specificity and civilizational significance of Ukrainian historical thought of the imperial age; synthetic and conceptual (2000-2015) represented by the names of such historians as Ya. Kalakura, V. Kotsur, V. Masnenko, P. Radko, O. Rerent, O. Udod, O. Yas and others, based on the latest civilization methodologies have fully and comprehensively considered the content, features of the development and national potential of the historical thought in the second half of the XIXth – the first third of the ХХth century; the stage of innovative historiography (mid-2010s – present) during which historians (Ya. Kalakura, V. Smolii, O. Udod, V. Yaremchuk, O. Yas) begin to study specificity, locality and microhistoricity in the development of historical thought of the period under study. Scholars analyze the subdisciplinary trends of contemporary historical science, styles of historical thinking, intellectual, personal and institutional dimensions of Ukrainian historical thought, its social and political contexts, and other aspects. Conclusions. It has been found out that the problem of the place and the role of historical knowledge and historians in the regeneration of the national movement is represented in the present-day historical science in a rather representative way. The achievements of modern historiography testify the exceptional importance of the historical thought and research and socio-cultural initiatives of the historians of that time in the development of the national consciousness of the Ukrainians and the intensification of the processes of nationalization and state-creation during the Ukrainian Democratic Revolution of 1917-1921.