Historical researches in Ukrainian Free Academy of Art Sciences in Germany DI-PI Period (1945–1952)

Abstract

Historical researches of members of Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences in Germany in 1945–1952 were analyzed in the article. The Academy had two historical professional groups whose members were well-known archaeologists Vadim Shcherbakivsky, Neonila Kordysh, Michael Miller, historians Dmytro Doroshenko, Alexander Ohloblyn, Boris Krupnytskyi, Natalia Polonska and others. It is proved that in scientific works were violated problems of different historical periods. The most investigated questions were researches of Trypillian culture, social and political development of Galicia-Volyn state (1290–1340), internal and foreign policy of Hetman Ivan Mazepa and Hetman Danylo Apostol etc. Historiographical review of this period devoted to the times of Hetman Ivan Mazepa, to the problem of authorship of «History of Rus », to the studying of the history of Southern Ukraine in the twentieth century. In total, for seven years Ukrainian historians created significant scientific contribution, which has not lost popularity to the present.