Comprehending the Past: Soviet Visions, Post-Soviet Revisions and Modern Concepts in “Ukrainian Historical Journal” (1957— 2017)

Th is book elucidates complex and long process of the “Ukrainian Historical Journal” transformation from the republican professional publication, founded in 1957 in the Ukrainian SSR, to a modern journal of Ukrainian historians. Esseys and materials connected with the journal’s history are published consisting of two main segments: 1) materials covering the history of Ukraine in the Soviet and post-Soviet times; 2) esseys with analytical interpretation of journal’s publications and its changes with regards to the defi nite problems, topics, periods and epochs of the history of Ukraine, in particular, history of the Middle Ages and early modern history, history of the XIXth — the early XXth centuries, the Ukrainian revolution of 1917-1921, inter-war and post-war history of Soviet Ukrsine, Ukrainian dimension of the history of World War II, and also studying the problems of the world history in the journal’s publications, etc.