THE ROLE OF YAROSLAV DASHKEVICH IN STUDYING THE «WHITE SPOT» OF UKRAINIAN HISTORY DURING THE «PERESTROIKA» PERIOD (1985–1991)

Abstract

The author concludes about involving historians during the period of restructuring into the process of conscious reorientation of Ukrainian humanitarians. He speaking with publications in periodicals or at scientific conferences violated important aspects of the historical past of Ukraine, which were distorted or ordered in the scientific sense of Soviet time. First of all, these issues were connected with the opening of the myth of the sovereignty of the Ukrainian nation. And here, according to the historian, the return to the sources of Ukrainian historiography and critical analysis of the sources should not be the last role. However, most of the works of the scientist, in the investigated period were scientifically popular. This is due to the fact that only the first steps were taken in the national science to overcome the communist stereotypes and to study the national history. He demonstrated deep knowledge of the subject, which was based on deep study of scientific works of predecessors and source base. He constantly stressed the great importance of historical science for the formation of national consciousness, therefore demanded from scientists to look at the historical process only from the positions of their own people and prospects of its development. In the days of independence of Ukraine, some of the author’s judgments were changed by the social political circumstances, which require a deep scientific analysis of his creative heritage using comparative analysis.