PERCEPTION OF MYKHAILO HRUSHEVSKY’S WORKS DURING INTERWAR PERIOD

Abstract

INTRODUCTION Perception of M. Hrushevsky’s works by his colleagues from Slavic world has been in the focus of special historiographical interest for a long time. The Czech contribution to this intellectual reflection is not an exception. Let us recall the most thorough modern work of Vitaliy Telvak 1 . The researcher concentrates of the most prolific period of Czech Hrushevsky studies of the last years XIX – the beginning of XX century when the Ukrainian intellectual was at the peak of his scientific activity, actively responding to polemic remarks of his colleagues from the banks of Vltava. Regarding such a chronological accent, the after-war period, when Hrushevsky was in search for possibilities of creative self-realization in emigration and when he later put titanic efforts into the renewal of academic Ukrainian studies in the Motherland, often is outside scientists’ focus. As it will be demonstrated below, the mentioned years 1920–1930, though were less marked by research reflection, but had a unique historiographical character, defined by the rapid change of social-political situation. The above-mentioned years are also important because of the establishment of Chech independent Slavic tradition, that did not imposed almost traditional remarks concerning Hrushevsky’s unconventional hypotheses, peculiar for previous imperial era.