Олександр Карпенко в Інституті суспільних наук: формування науковця (1952–1960)

Abstract

The article analyzes the scientific and organizational activities of Oleksandr Yukhymovych Karpenko (1921–2013) – a famous Ukrainian historian, teacher, local historian. Eight years of work at the Institute of Social Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1952–1960) is a period of formation of Alexander Karpenko as a historian-researcher and scientist. The work of the famous historian at the Institute is divided into two stages: 1) 1952–1956; 2) 1956–1960. The first period was characterized primarily by multifaceted scientific activity. In February 1953 he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences on the topic: “Peasant uprisings in the Lviv region in 1932–1933.” at the Institute of History of the USSR in the Academy of Sciences. On the basis of the materials of the mentioned dissertation he prepared the monograph “Peasant uprisings in Poland in 1932–1933” was. (1955); Additionally, seven articles were published in scientific journals and five articles were prepared for publication. The second period (1956–1960) was much more difficult for Karpenko, as he was the first to feel the pressure of the totalitarian system on the humanities in the USSR. His speech at a scientific conference in 1956 as well as his articles on the formation of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic aroused devastating criticism from the party nomenklatura. In the end, these circumstances forced him to leave the Institute of Social Sciences in 1960. The article is written mainly on the materials of the personal file of Karpenko, which is stored in the Ivan Krypyakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.