UKRAINIAN IDEA OF THE END OF XVIII – EARLY XIX CENTURY: HISTORIOGRAPHICAL UNDERSTANDING BY DOMESTIC RESEARCHERS

Abstract

One of the important factors of national development is the historical memory of the people, accumulated in historiography. Here are reflected the actuality of the study of the Ukrainian idea of the end of the XVIII - beginning of the XIX century, its reflection in the domestic historiography. Scientists need, first of all, to rethink critically the whole array of modern literature, the concepts, that are show in it, thoughts and views, that contribute to the accumulation of historical knowledge, their further development and to revise emotional publications written at a low scientific level, that do not meet the requirements of time, the current state of historiographical theory and practice. The creative heritage of figures, who stood at the origins of the process of Ukrainian national revival, developed theoretically the national idea, contributed to the active awakening and maturation of the national consciousness of Ukrainians are in the field of view of modern researchers. The author used chronological-problematic, historical-comparative, system-structural, periodization, descriptive research methods in the article. The work is complex and interdisciplinary. Its conceptual foundations are based on the traditional sciences: history, political science, sociology, as well as on new ideas of the history of science, historiosophy, ethno-state studies.