UKRAINIAN HISTORICAL SCIENCE AND OPINION OF THE 1950–1980s IN LETTERS OF PROFESSOR VOLODYMYR HRABOVETSKYІ
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15330/gal.31.32-38Abstract
The scientific work of the prominent Ukrainian historian Volodymyr Hrabovetskyi (1928–2015) developed in conditions of strict control of the Soviet party political regime in all spheres of social life of the country. V. Hrabovetskyi, like all the Ukrainian Soviet historical science, had to adapt to constant ideological, political and moral pressure.
The article shows the Soviet censored reality of the 1950s and 1980s, in which Volodymyr Hrabovetskуi worked and his scientific achievements were underway. The author observes that a prominent Ukrainian historian could not openly express his scientific judgments and arguments that were in opposition to the “grip of Soviet censorship”. However, they freely thought and analyzed them in letters to their historian colleagues.
The article briefly analyzes its correspondence with the Ukrainian Soviet historians of the 1950s and 1980s, which is stored in the manuscripts department of the Lviv National Scientific Library named after Vasyl Stefanyk. The scholar maintained scientific contacts with about 60 scientists and cultural figures not only in Ukraine, but also in Poland, Russia, Slovakia, and others like that.
Correspondence with Soviet historians concerned various aspects of the professional activity of V. Hrabovetskyі: collection of scientific materials, preparation for the defense of candidate and doctoral dissertations, participation in the publication of collective monographs, cooperation with academic academic institutions (Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Institute of Social Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR).
The author notes that Volodymyr Hrabovetskyi’s surviving epistolary corps of sources today is useful for contemporary Ukrainian researchers studying the subject of the influence of censorship on Ukrainian Soviet historical science and thought in the system of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.
