Ukrainian Emigration Research Articles

Методология исследований советизации Закарпатья 1944–1950 гг.

The article analyzes the modern methodology of the Transcarpathia Sovietization research in 1944–1950. Though there are individual (N. Makara, V. Mishchanyn) and collective monogrpahs (N. Makara, R. Ofitsinsky), it is too early to speak about a serious methodological base to present the causal links of this process. A better understanding of Sovietization in Transcarpathia requires studying the historical and geographical space. A contemporary researcher should go beyond the narrowed framework of the regional approach in the study of the Sovietization in Transcarpathia and compare its post-war transformations with those in Western Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic Republics, Central and Eastern Europe (A. Applebaum) using the methodology of comparative analysis. The epistemological approach employed by P.R. Magocsi can be used to study the historical specificity of the region with its multi-ethnicity, multiculturalism, multiconfessionality (S. Makarchuk). The Ukrainian emigration was rather critical of the post-war policy of the Soviet regime. In particular, V. Markus defines the entry of Transcarpathia into Soviet Ukraine as annexation. The Encyclopedia of Ukraine published in the 1950s and 1980s in Canada analyzes many aspects of Sovietization in the Ukrainian SSR. A contemporary researcher should clearly understand such concepts as “totalitarianism” (H. Arendt), “Sovietization”, “socialist version of modernization” (S. Gavrov), “transit”, “transformation”, etc. The article also points out some errors of scholars studying the problems of Sovietization in the region. Thus, the problem of Sovietization of Transcarpathia is still under development. Its multifaceted nature requires interdisciplinary approaches using the tools of history, economics, law, statistics, political science, social science, ethnology, and cultural studies.

Науково-технічні відкриття 1920-х та українська еміграція в міжвоєнній ЧСР (1918–1939)

This article informs about the impact of scientific and technological progress of the 1920s on everyday life of the Ukrainian emigration center in the interwar period of Czechoslovakia in 1918-1939. First of all, it is referred to technological novelties of the period in 1921-1929: cinematography, television, automobile manufacturing, fashion, medical industry, telegraph, and bank and post transfers. The proposed topic has not been submitted to the scientific audience yet, as far as the life of the Ukrainian emigration in the interwar of Czechoslovak Republic was considered mainly in the context of political and sociocultural work both emigrants themselves and the latest Ukrainian, Czech and Slovak historians. It is focused on two pointsin the proposed scientific intelligence: consideration of the everyday life of anti-Bolshevist emigration and of the lives of Ukrainian immigrants in Czechoslovakia which were arbitrarily distributed for four periods: 1918-1921, 1921-1925, 1925-1933, 1933-1939, all of which had its own specific features. Consideration of the Ukrainian everyday emigration life in the years 1921–1929 in the interwar of Czechoslovakia carried out with the help ofrecollection, memoirs, postal correspondence (letters) and archival documentation. Therefore, it implies the usage of general methods of the scientific research: analysis, analogy, historical and logical methods. The emigrational routine is a farsighted direction of the historical research, because it is the history of the small vivid worlds, peculiar alternative to the researches which are focused on global political and social processes and events.Everyday life is not minted in special decrees or laws;it is notrecorded in programs and speeches, as far as political and state history, and it is not honed by the financial gains in the economy, and by the cultural monuments, though it always exists like air, it goes unnoticed as time.

НАУКОВО-ОРГАНІЗАЦІЙНА ДІЯЛЬНІСТЬ ГЕНЕРАЛ-ХОРУНЖОГО ВСЕВОЛОДА ПЕТРІВА (1920–1930-ТІ РОКИ)

The article considers the peculiarities of the scientific and organizational activity of General-Cornet Vsevolod Petriv. The main aspects of his cooperation with higher educational institutions, scientific and military organizations are determined. The specifics of the development of the scientific and educational sphere for the training of officers in the conditions of camp internment are highlighted. The museum-archival activity of Vsevolod Petriv is considered. The purpose of this article is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of scientific and organizational activities of Vsevolod Petriv. The object of research is the figure of General-Cornet Vsevolod Petriv. The subject of research is the scientific and organizational activities of General-Cornet Vsevolod Petriv. The source base of the study are the documents of the Central State Archive of Public Associations of Ukraine and the collection Petrov Vsevolod. Military-Historical Works. Letters and Petrov Vsevolod. Military-Historical Works. Memories. The historiography of the study is represented by the works of V. Sergiychuk, S. Narizhny, O. Sukhobokova, O. Kuzhilna and L. Cherniy. In the process of preparing the article, such research methods as analysis and synthesis of source and historiographical information, historical-comparative and problem-chronological were used. With their help it was possible to comprehensively consider this problem and solve the tasks. According to the results of the research, the following conclusions were obtained: scientific and organizational activity of General-Cornet Vsevolod Petriv consisted of scientific and educational work among internment camps, lecture and teaching work in higher educational institutions of Ukrainian emigration, museum and archival work and cooperation with Ukrainian emigrant military-scientific societies. In particular, Vsevolod Petrov developed the project of the General Staff Academy, organized training courses for staff officers and officers for service in operational headquarters, prepared the publication of the magazine Ukrainian Trumpet, taught a number of subjects on military history, military theory, sociology and physical education in Ukrainian Higher Pedagogical Institute in Prague, the Ukrainian Institute of Social Sciences and the Ukrainian Workers University. He developed a number of conceptual provisions for the activities of the Ukrainian National Museum-Archive, participated in cultural and scientific events and lectures and publishing activities of the Ukrainian Military Scientific Society in Prague, cooperated with the Ukrainian Military Historical Society and the Ukrainian Historical and Philological Society in Prague.

Democratic Traditions of the European Universities as the Development Assurance of Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions in Interwar Period

The article deals with the study of the Ukrainian scientists’ activities in one of the largest and most notable centres of Ukrainian political emigration since the early twenties of the 20th century – in the Prague one. It has been pointed out that the Ukrainian intellectuals in foreign countries did not abandon their thoughts about the restoration of a united sovereign state. The Ukrainian state and legal thought development were associated both with the functioning of the Ukrainian Free University as well as other higher education institutions and with the broad involving of European democratic traditions during the emigration period. The professors had to solve such important and difficult tasks as: to create independent university courses on many disciplines for Law Department which programmes had already been significantly expanded in Prague. Having a complicated scientific and methodological work the Ukrainian scientists performed a responsible task successfully; dozens of legal courses were compiled and partially published, most of the specializedcourses differed in originality and made a significant contribution to the development of legal thought and science. Regarding the teaching activity of scientists in emigration, and in the past many of them were lawyers-practitioners and statesmen, we should note that their reports and lecture materials are characterized by deep preparation, content, thoughtfulness and consistency of the basic idea development. The training of Ukrainian youth in higher education institutions in Czechoslovakia was completely saturated not only with European worldview and methodological approaches, but also retained progressive national-state traditions. The forced situation, in which legal scientists got, brought them to such a theoretical and practical level of training of legal staff, to which we are only approaching today. This stage was viewed by young people as temporary and did not even imagine that they would remain in the West forever; prepared to “return home not empty-handed”. Thus, modern legal education and science need advanced more thorough research on the legal refinement of legal scholars in exile. University students and postgraduate students should take an active part in events where scientists and students of law faculties of Ukrainian higher schools in Europe are popularized. It is advisable to organize discussions about state-legal, socio-political views, cultural activities of figures. It is also necessary to intensify the individual search for the scientific activities of Ukrainian emigration in certain areas of law.

Figure of Fedir Yakimenko on the background of Ukrainian interwar emigration in Prague

Figure of Fedir Yakimenko on the background of Ukrainian interwar emigration in Prague

ВНЕСОК ЮРІЯ ШЕВЕЛЬОВА У РОЗВИТОК УКРАЇНОЗНАВЧИХ ДОСЛІДЖЕНЬ У СЕРЕДОВИЩІ МИСТЕЦЬКОГО УКРАЇНСЬКОГО РУХУ

The article examines the research of famous Ukrainian scientist Yuri Shevelov developing Ukrainian studies associations in period of emigration after World War II, when Ukrainian novelists were united in Ukrainian Аrt Movement (1945-1948). The attention is focused on those meetings which have been arranged by Shevelov and his confederates for the unification of different segments of Ukrainian creative intelligentsia in difficult conditions that were caused by emigration from the motherland. During those years, the scientist was considering questions among the important problems of Ukrainian studies about originality of Ukrainian literature, emigration purpose, provinciality and the methods of its overcoming. It is proved that the concept of national organic style, as a constant of Ukrainian literary and artistic life, was extremely important in the scientist's views. Yuri Shevelov made its main provisions like one of the leading ideologists of Ukrainian Аrt Movement during the existence of this association. The original idea of national organic style had caused the rejection from some part of Ukrainian emigrants and led to a boisterous discussion where there were considered important questions about Ukrainian originality of national literature and its place in European and world culture. The article highlights the essence of discrepancy of views on national organic style between Yuri Shevelov and his opponents. The most famous of them was Volodymyr Derzhavin. There is an emphasis that Ukrainian Аrt Movement went beyond just literature organization due to Shevelov's efforts. It had opened not only a grand literature, but even publishing and research activities and became an important branch in the history of Ukrainian literature in a relatively short period of time.

ПРОТИСТОЯННЯ В КОЛАХ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ МІЖВОЄННОЇ ЕМІГРАЦІЇ: ДВА ПОЛЮСИ БАЧЕННЯ СПРАВИ ЗБЕРЕЖЕННЯ НАЦІОНАЛЬНИХ ПАМ’ЯТОК

The aim of the article is to analyze the specifics of archival and museum activities of Ukrainian emigrants of the 20s - 30s of the XX century and finding out the essenсe and reasons for their differences of opinion on the preservation of Ukrainian archival heritage. The phenomenon of Ukrainian interwar emigration was a unique phenomenon in Ukrainian history and culture given the importance of its functioning in all spheres - state, political, cultural. Characterizing the conditions and specifics of the second wave of Ukrainian emigration, it should be noted that it was complicated by material shortages and lack of consolidated unity, which led to the confrontation of certain groups in solving various problems of everyday emigration. Based on the analysis of published and out-of-date archival materials, the article concludes that there was no common vision in the circles of Ukrainian interwar emigration on the protection of national monuments, which caused confrontation between its separate groups. The causes of the conflict largely lay in the party affiliation of the conflicting parties (the Petliurists, represented by the State Center of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile and the Ukrainian Socialist Revolutionaries), through whose prism the preservation of Ukrainian monuments was considered. Party interests were placed above national ones, resulting in a lack of understanding and a loss of unity of Ukrainian patriotic forces.

Тема Голодомору 1932–1933 рр. на сторінках часопису «Українські Вісті» (1945, Німеччина – 2000, США)

The problem of restoring historical truth has always been relevant among Ukrainian political emigrants. The proof of that is the materials about the Holodomor of 1932–1933 on the pages of the Newspaper “Ukrainian News”/“Ukrainskі Wisti”. The objective of this study is to find out the subject and genre palette of materials about the Holodomor in Ukraine, the names of their authors, the significance of these publications in the general process of restoring historical truth both for the Ukrainian emigrant society and the process of civil society formation in Ukraine, as well as expanding the scientific paradigm of this issue through the little-known materials of emigration press. We managed to ascertain that 413 materials of different genres, which are directly related to the outlined subject, were published on the pages of “Ukrainian News”. The most essential method of achieving the objective was the analysis of materials of the newspaper “Ukrainian News”, which helped to identify the main components of the subject matter. Through this method, the publications of a significant number of authors on the same subject, as well as effectiveness of presenting their materials on the topic of this study were analyzed.

The influence of the Ukrainian emigration environment of Western Canada on the formation of William Kurelek's creative personality

The influence of the Ukrainian emigration environment of Western Canada on the formation of William Kurelek's creative personality

БІБЛІОГРАФІЧНА CТЕФАНИКІАНА

The first personal bibliographic index of V. Stefanyk, compiled by Bohdan Romanenchuk, appeared in 1937 in the magazine “Ukrainian Book”. In Soviet times, bibliographers of the Lviv Academic Library prepared three bibliographic indexes by V. Stefanyk (1954, incl. I. Shapovalov and A. Odukha; 1961, incl. O. Kushch; 1985, incl. L. Ilnytska), each of which was negatively affected by ideological censorship. Shortcomings and numerous omissions were noted by B. Kravtsiv in the review “Poverty of the Soviet Bibliography”. In the XXI century bibliographic stefanykiana was supplemented by publications that have one thing in common — availability on the Internet. They were prepared during the jubilee years by libraries from different regions of Ukraine, taking into account the contingent and the needs of their users. However, there is still a need for a new publication that would fill the gaps caused by ideological censorship and carefully register the work of Ukrainian emigration and the bibliographic array of domestic literature since 1982. Keywords: Vasyl Stefanyk, personal bibliographic index, biobibliographic dictionary, webliography, electronic resources.

Вплив “Заяви у справі принципів польсько-української співпраці” 1987 р. на формування двосторонніх відносин

Вплив “Заяви у справі принципів польсько-української співпраці” 1987 р. на формування двосторонніх відносин

ОСНОВНЫЕ ЭТАПЫ СТАНОВЛЕНИЯ УКРАИНСКОЙ ДИАСПОРЫ В США

The article focuses on the emigration of Ukrainians to the US and the formation of a Ukrainian diaspora there. Emigration from ethnic Ukrainian territories began at the end of the nineteenth century and has continued to the present day. The generally accepted periodisation considers five waves of emigration (before 1914, 1914–1945, 1945–1986, 1986–2014 and after 2014) and therefore five stages of the diaspora formation. As the study shows, the stages or waves of emigration from Ukraine largely coincide with the migration processes in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and finally in the post-Sovi- et space, but there are also a number of differences that need to be understood. The diaspora issues were often linked to issues of emigrant self-determination, identity formation as well as the policies of the recipient state. Political, social, educational and other organisations have been formed within the diaspora over the course of its existence, with the diaspora institutionalisation pro- cesses varying according to the specific historical period. In the context of the continuation of the next stage of Ukrainian emigration to the United States and the evolution of the diaspora today, a historical and genetic study of the transmigration of Ukrainians overseas and the formation of diaspora structures acquires particular relevance.

ДІМ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ НАУКИ В МЮНХЕНІ: СТОРІНКИ ІНТЕЛЕКТУАЛЬНОЇ ІСТОРІЇ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ ПОВОЄННОЇ ЕМІГРАЦІЇ

The article investigates the history of creation of the House of Ukrainian Sciences as an umbrella association of three Ukrainian scientific institutions: Ukrainian Free University (UFU), Ukrainian technical-husbandry Institute (UTHI) and European section of the Shevchenko Scientific society (NTSh) beginning from the idea of its creation in the early 1960es till 1991 and including short overview of its activity. This structure had an executive body – Working and Promoting Association of Ukrainian Sciences as a form of Ukrainian-German collaboration in organization of three over mentioned Ukrainian research institutions‘ activity. Thanks to it the Ukrainian Institutions could proceed their work: in the case of the Ukrainian Free University in both teaching and research aspects and by UTHI and NTSh in their scientific work. Such formal association allowed to provide organizational support and research planning of the Ukrainian scientific institutions, assure their financial assignment, which to the big part was given by German authorities, and organize controlling of the use of money. From the other side, the House of the Ukrainian Sciences founded 1963 allowed more affective internal and external cooperation of the Ukrainian scientific institutions by prevention of the autonomy status of each them. That in its turn allowed proceeding of activity of these Ukrainian scientific institutions in Germany as well as the further development of the of Ukrainian emigration‘s intellectual tradition in the whole. House of Ukrainian sciences became an important cultural and intellectual center of Ukrainians abroad and a mediator between them and German, further – European culture.

УКРАЇНОЗНАВЧІ ЗАЦІКАВЛЕННЯ ІВАНА ОГІЄНКА КРІЗЬ ПРИЗМУ ЙОГО НАУКОВОЇ ПОЗИЦІЇ В ЕМІГРАЦІЇ

The article raises the issue of the importance of Ukrainian studies by Ivan Ogienko, as a representative of the Ukrainian intellectual elite in emigration, because his works influenced the progress of cultural, educational and spiritual life of Ukrainians both in our country and abroad. It is known that he is one of the founders of Ukrainian science and education and an outstanding Ukrainian educator of the twentieth century. The role of preserving national identity, spiritual values, patriotism of the outstanding scientist, teacher, linguist, culturologist, public and church figure, Ivan Ogienko, through the prism of hard work, incredible diligence, stability and consistency in scientific research is emphasized. Attention is focused on the fact that the Ukrainian scientist was the bearer of national and cultural ideas and spiritual values of his people. The opinion is confirmed that the world recognition of I. Ogienko / Metropolitan Ilarion was brought by fundamental works on the history of Ukrainian culture, language, history of the church, which have not lost their scientific significance even today. The scientist-researcher made dictionaries, headed the Ministry of Education of the Ukrainian People's Republic, and being in emigration – headed the Ukrainian autocephalous Orthodox Church. It is worth mentioning the most common and used translation of the Bible into Ukrainian, on which Ivan Ogienko worked for more than 45 years. The article analyzes I. Ogienko's scientific achievements during the emigration, which significantly strengthened Ukrainian studies, and also considers the works "Pre-Christian Beliefs of the Ukrainian People", "Ukrainian Culture", "Serve the People - Serve God: Theological Studio" and others. The book "Our Life Abroad: Ideological and Historical Essays" by Ivan Ogienko, published in Winnipeg (Canada), where the author spoke about the difficult life of Ukrainian emigrants abroad, deserves attention and listening. I. Ogienko describes how important it is to preserve one's national identity, culture and native language in a foreign country. It is concluded that national culture has great potential for the establishment of Ukraine in the world cultural space, and the life and scientific and educational work of Ivan Ogienko became an example for many researchers in studying the socio-cultural heritage of the Ukrainian diaspora.

СТАЛІНСЬКІ РЕПРЕСІЇ КРІЗЬ ПРИЗМУ ДОЛЬ ЗНАЙОМИХ І ДРУЗІВ І. КРИП'ЯКЕВИЧА (ЗА МАТЕРІАЛАМИ ЙОГО МЕМУАРІВ)

The article is based on the materials of the "Biographical Dictionary of My Acquaintances" by a prominent Ukrainian historian, academician I. Krypyakevych (1886-1967), written by him during the Thaw. The source, which is preserved in the Krypyakevych Family Archive, was published by us in 2017. The study highlights the large-scale phenomenon of Stalin’s terror through the prism of the personal dimension of history, "microhistory." The memoirs contain information about the Eastern and Western Ukrainian acquaintances of the Lviv historian, representatives of the national intelligentsia, who were repressed in the 20-40s of the twentieth century. The main stages of repression can be traced to the memoirs: repressions of the 1930s, the victims of which were historians from Soviet Ukraine associated with the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (VUAN), representatives of the "Shot Renaissance", victims of the Sovietization of Western Ukraine and postwar persecution. The victims of Stalin's repressions were representatives of the scientific and creative intelligentsia of Ukraine, public and political figures. Among them were participants in such fabricated cases as the Ukrainian National Center, the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine, the Union of Ukrainian Nationalists, and others. Among I. Krypyakevych’s acquaintances and friends were the following well-known repressed people: Les Kurbas, Mykhailo Boychuk, Yuriy Lypa, Mykola Zerov, Mykola Voronyi, and others. The materials of the "Dictionary…" contribute to the coverage of the tragedy of the Krushelnytsky family, which became a symbol of Soviet terror. The fate of many acquaintances of the academician was intertwined with Solovki. Many of them went through the crucible of the Great Terror of 1937-1938 and finished their lives during the mass executions in the Sandarmokh tract. I. Krypyakevych personally helped the victims of the Soviet regime in every possible way. The article considers the problem of Western Ukrainian emigration to the USSR, traces the main circumstances and motives for the emigration of the Galician intelligentsia to Soviet Ukraine.

IMAGE OF V. PETROV-DOMONTOVYCH IN MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES-EMIGRANTS

Actuality. The modern study of literature now does not give the answer for a question, if it is possible to create a character of a man from the life by facilities of nonfiction narration, however, it is convincing and full-blooded in the reader’s perception as an artistic image. Stating the Subject of the Study: forming of character-image of writer V. Petrov-Domontovych in the circle of the Ukrainian emigrants of the post-war wave due to their remembrances, letters, and essays. Research methodology: through the comparative hermeneutic interpretation of texts, and also later fiction texts that formed the character-image of V. Petrov. Stating the Aim of the Study. Other mechanisms of reader reception work in nonfiction genres, then in fiction, id est it becomes possible another result – the character of real V. Petrov. Results of the Study and originality. The image of Victor Petrov, formed in the memory of representatives of Ukrainian literary emigration and recorded in their memoirs and correspondence, is no less ambivalent, than images of characters in the fictional works of Victor Domontovych. Expatriate contemporaries saw their colleague differently and remembered in different situations, however, it is significant that people, in many respects disagree with moral assessments, hostile to others (as Ihor Kachurovsky, who always biased towards Yuri Sherekh-Shevelov and even repeated stereotyped allegations against him after his death) they were largely controversial in the estimation of V. Petrov. On the one hand, V. Domontovych deserved respect as a talented prose writer; on the other hand, V. Petrov was a mystery as a person. His collaboration with the Soviet special services did not cause unequivocal condemnation, since the circumstances of his "disappearance" from Munich in 1949 remained unclear. Most of those people who spoke about this event immediately after it was treated to the disappeared man with compassion because they suspected the "human beings"-brothers (Yuriy Lavrinenko) from the Soviet side. Image of V. Petrov mostly appears "split", as well as images of characters in the novels of V. Domontovich. The practical significance. In non-fictional texts, the researcher can trace the path of the formation of the image and stereotype, returning and approaching the prototype.

ДІЯЛЬНІСТЬ УКРАЇНСЬКОГО ВІЛЬНОГО УНІВЕРСИТЕТУ 1921-1945 РР.

The publication examines the activities of the Ukrainian Free University as a research center formed by Ukrainian emigration to Europe in the interwar period. The authors’ attention is focused on the activities of this institution as a socio-cultural institution that allowed Ukrainians abroad to preserve their national identity.

Архіви української політичної еміграції в Польщі

The article analyzes the composition of the Ukrainian political emigration’s archival collections in the interwar period in Poland, traces the ways of their displacements during the Second World War, and determines its current storage locations and source potential for studying the problems of the political and military history of Ukraine as well as Polish-Ukrainian relations. It is defined that after the defeat of the Ukrainian War of Independence 1917-1921 valuable political and military archives were repatriated to Poland where they were preserved in the emigration centers established by the UNR Government in Tarnow, Сzestochowa and partly in Warsaw. During the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany, the archives of the UNR Directorate were repatriated to Krakow, and eventually, they came into the possession of Soviet security services that resulted in moving the archives to the USSR. As a consequence, these archives were classified for security reasons and stored in archival special fonds. Moreover, valuable documents that describe the activity of the Ukrainian political emigration and Polish-Ukrainian relationship, particularly the relations between Symon Petlura and Josef Pilsudski, can be found in the fonds of Polish institutions, such as Archiwum Akt Nowych, Сentralne Archiwum Wojskowe, National Library of Poland / Biblioteka Narodowa in Warsaw and the National Ossolinski Institute in Wroclaw. In Ukraine, the most considerable segment of the UNR emigration collections is presented nowadays by the fonds of the Central State Archive of Supreme Authorities and Governments of Ukraine in Kyiv. These documents have an important source potential for describing the processes of the Ukrainian state formation, struggles for independence along with detailed research of Polish-Ukrainian relations during the interwar period. The author states the relevance of preparing an electronic registry of Ukrainian emigration archival collections with the characterization of the content of collections, location of their creation, transportation routes, and their current location. It would embrace the research along with including the documents to the scientific narrative.

RESEARCHING UKRAINIAN AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE: TOWARDS A LITERARY HISTORY

The article is devoted to the study of the history of the development of Ukrainian literature in Australia. Analyzing Ukrainian literary life, the author focuses on its diversity. The chronological framework covers the period from the arrival of Ukrainian emigrants in the postwar period to 1991, geographically – Sydney and Melbourne as the most important centers of Ukrainian literary activity, but it is also noted that Ukrainian literature developed in other Australian cities. The article is based on a wide variety of source materials. Special attention is paid not only to the history of literary publications and their authors, but also to the activities of literary and cultural organizations and the role of Ukrainian periodicals in Australia. It is claimed that various organizations and associations were created by the first Ukrainian emigrants in the post-war period, which contributed to the development of the Ukrainian literary world.

ПРОБЛЕМИ МАЗЕПИНСЬКОЇ ЕМІГРАЦІЇ В ДОСЛІДНИЦЬКІЙ СПАДЩИНІ ОРЕСТА СУБТЕЛЬНОГО

In the article the first attempt is made to evaluate Orest Subtelny’s contribution to the research of the so called Mazepist emigration. For this purpose, the author considers the contribution from two main perspectives: thematic and conceptual. Orest Subtelny’s research work, which is analyzed in the paper, selectively covers four topics from the history of the first period of Ukrainian emigration: the problem of the political aim of Mazepist emigration, the core problems of the international relations between Orlyk and different countries, the problem of the investigation of Orlyk’s Diariush as the source for the general diplomatic history of that period, and the attempt to encompass political emigres of several East European countries and as an entity phenomenon. Through the use of the archival and library sources, the author finds that at different stages of life in the time span of 1970–1990s the problems of Mazepist emigration played a critical role in research of the famous Canadian historian, being the object of his professional interest. Explaining the evolution of Subtelny’s vision of significant problems of the Mazepist emigration, the author concludes that the historian succeeded in possessing the decisive role in the solution of the number of the main research problems of this phenomenon, and was successful in the pioneering formulation of its vision and in proposing an individual attempt to provide an academic solution. This evolution is reflected in a series of monographs, articles, and speeches, written by a scholar mainly in the most mature periods of scholarly creativity – in the time span of 1970–1990s.