ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ ІСТОРИЧНИХ ПРАЦЬ І. ФРАНКА: СУЧАСНА УКРАЇНСЬКА ІСТОРІОГРАФІЯ

Abstract

The article examines the coverage of I. Franko’s historical research in modern Ukrainian historiography. The authors emphasize that until recently, this problem was covered quite tendentially in Soviet historiography. It was a secondary and not so important topic in the assessment of the scientist’s legacy compared to his achievements as a writer, poet, essayist, translator, public and political figure. Soviet studies were built on the basis of Marxist-Leninist methodology. Emphasis was placed on the scientist’s political beliefs, which were presented through the prism of the fight against Ukrainian «bourgeois nationalists». The research of diaspora scientists differed significantly from the Soviet ideological analogues. But in these studies, the problem of scientific research of I. Franko’s historical views was not excreted into a separate topic. Only in the studies of modern Ukrainian scientists this problem rise to the conceptual level and receive comprehensive coverage. In the writings of modern Ukrainian scientists, we can trace both criticism of previous assessments of Ivan Franko’s historical scientific heritage, attempts to form a general vision of the scientist’s historical worldview and prospects for further research into his historical scientific heritage.