Study of the history of Ukraine in the context of socio-political transformations in Poland (1989–2017)

Abstract

Recently, the necessity to study the past of Ukraine becomes the very actual problem. The special place takes researching of development of the Ukrainian issue in Poland. The author proposes a hypothesis that the process of studying history of Ukraine in Poland is closely connected to the process of social and political transformations in the state. The appeal to the theme is conditioned by needing to fill one of the gaps in modern historiography as for generalizing the process of studying the history of Ukraine in the context of socio-political transformations in Poland (1989–2017), needing to study the experience of the neighbouring country in the direction of the study of Ukrainian history in the context of socio-political transformations. The article is devoted to the analysis of the process of studying the problems of the Ukrainian history in Polish public and political thought in the context of the general political process in Poland (1989–2017). Particular attention is paid to the activities of Polish scientific centres and individual historians who are engaged in the study of the problems of Ukrainian history. The author comes to the conclusion, that the development of the social-politic transformation in Poland, the democratic changes of the end of the twentieth century started the process of establishing relations between Poland and Ukraine, studying and analyzing the common past. The attention of Polish historians has been paid to the «acute problems» of the common past. The issues of cultural and spiritual development, national consciousness of Ukrainians, Ukrainian-Polish cooperation, etc. remained unexplored.