FEDYUN O. I. Prospect studies of Soviet historians in the second half of the XX-th century: historiographical dimension.

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    This article cast light upon the development of the historical science in Ukrainian Soviet Socialistic Republic during the second half of XX century( 1950 – 1980-s). The following question is reviled through historiography , which allows to make more precise conclusion about approaches of soviet Ukrainian historians in their works. Soviet historical science deals muchg with ideology and myths, in its work was based on the regulations and guidelines of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, as a whole,is not a positive feature for history as scientific knowledge. The leading role of the Communist Party could be felt on all levels of life in Soviet society - from everyday life to science.Taking into account the strict control by the totalitarian Soviet regime of the scientific community in the country, history of the given period differs by bias and prejudice that are not typical for historical science at all. In this basis, today the question of the state of historical science in Soviet society in the second half of the twentieth century looks rather interesting . This study reveals some aspects of this question by analyzing key historiographical works Ukrainian Soviet historians 1950s – 1980s. In the article outlined and analyzed desired for scientists research issues, identified positive aspects of work and its drawbacks.            Comparing the general political mood in Ukraine with scientific conjuncture in the historic environment, the work draws parallels between the official party line and content-ideological content historiographical works of the given period. Thus, such works as «Essays of historical science», «Historiography of the history of Ukrainian SSR», «History of historical science in the USSR», «Pre-October period», «Historiography of the history of USSR: problems of the teaching and study» and others. act as typical works that were the product of their own period. It should be noted that in the article also underlined the positive aspects of these works, which indicates that during work with scientific literature, the author tried to be as objective as possible.

    It should be emphasized that the analysis of scientific publications 1950 – 1980’s done without separation of it from its historical period, which namely mach the demands of the principle of historicism. Author traced that the main trend to writing scientific papers were identified with the existing political regime, for example, in the works of the leading role of the Communist Party has always appeared on the agenda and the basic provisions of the Marxist-Leninist doctrine were made dogmatic. Another positive feature of the article is that it analyzes not only the conceptual content of Soviet historical works but also outlined the organizational aspects of writing – from financial matters to individual cases during publishing.

    Historical and historiographical works in the article are considered in chronological order according to the year of its publishing. So, in this article work presented in accordance with certain milestones so-called «classical» Soviet period («thaw», «stagnation», «perestroika»).

    Equally important for the study is that in the article presented both collective work and monumental monographs, dissertations and research. This helps to reveal more precise picture of the situation of historical science in Soviet society and to identify the range of issues that interested scientists in the period of Soviet history. Thus, the author outlined the range of issues, often studied by Ukrainian Soviet historians, among them: the history of the Great October Revolution, the collective construction of socialist competition, the Great Patriotic War, industrial and agricultural development, growth improvement of the Soviet people, the history of the Communist Party and others.

     Among the factual information and analysis the core of the works, the article deals with the psychological state of Soviet historians in the USSR, who worked under total control of totalitarian state. The study also reveals how Ukrainian historians successfully combined the requirements of the official party line, which included coverage of historical events and facts with regard to their demands and elements of national history, where the emphasis was made on the unique features of Ukrainian events and personalities.

     As a whole, the article of Fedyun O. I meets the modern demands of history, research topic is up-to-date to the study, all the requirements for execution are designed in strict sequence. The article can be recommended for publication.

Keywords: historiography, the CPSU, indoctrination, a cliche, the official line of the party.