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Institute of History of Ukraine

Institute of History of Ukraine is a research institute in Ukraine that is part of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine department of history, philosophy and law and studies a wide spectrum of problems in history of Ukraine. The institute is located in Kyiv.

Established

1936

completely not highlighted political history before times of ;

Kyivan Rus

in disorder highlighted the issue of emergence and formation of the ;

Ukrainian nation

some historians adhere to a false statement about "annexation of Galicia by Poland";

historians use inaccurate terminology such as 1st, 2nd, and 3rd (this "old, worn-out, and completely inaccurate" terminology has to be changed with new, scientific; the use of outdated terminology play into the hands of leadership of the Polish emigration government like General Władysław Sikorski who stated that the Soviet Union continues the policy of Catherine the Great and carried out the 4th partition of Poland);

partitions of Poland

the Ukrainian Cossack State of 16-17th centuries () is characterized one-sidedly, historians do not follow the instructions of Friedrich Engels that "tendency on creation of national states, which acts more clearly and more consciously, is one of the most significant levers of progress in Middle Ages" and did not reveal internal motives (political, economical, and cultural) of emergence of the Ukrainian Cossack State; they failed to stress that emergence of the Ukrainian Cossack State in those days was a progressive step forward compared to previous Lithuanian and Polish state arrangements in Ukraine;

Cossack Hetmanate

one-sidedly highlighted the reason for Ukraine annexation to Russia (Muscovite Tsardom), the 1654 act (the 1654 March Articles) was "not the beginning of union of Ukrainian and Russian nations, but political and legal arrangement of de facto existing through the ages union of those people which one day was intentionally broken by foreign invaders";

inadequately highlighted the issue of two pre-Revolutionary Russia (officially reactionary and democratic)

false reference of to national face (characteristics) of Ukrainian people;

Ukrainian nationalism

inadequately motivated victory of Socialist revolution in Ukraine;

inadequately highlighted historiography of Ukraine;

others.

Discipline

Ukrainian

1957–present

Institute of History of Ukraine

Ukr. Hist. J.

0130-5247 (print)
1729-570X (web)

Building[edit]

Beside the Institute of History of Ukraine, the building also houses two other research institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Shevchenko Institute of Literature and the Potebnia Institute of Linguistics.


During the events of Euromaidan in winter of 2014, near the building were erected the Hrushevsky Street barricades.

1936 – 1936

Artashes Saradzhev

1936 – 1941

Serhiy Byelousov

1942 – 1947 , member-correspondent

Mykola Petrovskyi

1947 – 1964

Oleksandr Kasymenko

1964 – 1967

Kuzma Dubyna

1968 – 1973 , academician

Andriy Skaba

1973 – 1978 , member-correspondent

Arnold Shevelev

1978 – 1993 , academician

Yuriy Kondufor

1993 – present , academician

Valeriy Smoliy

2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots

Oleksiy Tolochko

Official website

at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine website

Institute of History of Ukraine

Rublyov, O. . Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine.

Institute of History of Ukraine