The revolution of 1917 - the 1920s and the history of social and political thought from Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytsky's perspective

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2017
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Yosypenko, Serhii
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Prominent Ukrainian historian Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytsky (1919-1984) repeatedly addressed the topic of the Ukrainian revolution of 1917 - the 1920s, especially considering its intellectual origins and implications in the context of the history of Ukrainian social and political thought. Analysis of his works shows the manner in which the Ukrainian revolution as an event structures the history of Ukrainian social and political thought in both senses of the term “history”: as history itself and as its historiography. Based on this analysis, the article considers changes in the meaning of the revolution for modern Ukrainians, as well as the credibility - in the context of these changes - of the classifications of the historiography of Ukrainian social and political thought, which rest on the key meaning of the revolution for modern Ukrainian history. The article also supports the conclusion that the rejection of the evolutionary model which I. Lysiak-Rudnytsky most directly addressed will help to outline a well-balanced and reliable history of Ukrainian social and political thought without excessive historicism.
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Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytsky, Ukrainian Revolution, history of Ukrainian social and political thought, federalism, independence movement (samostiinytstvo), article
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Yosypenko S. The revolution of 1917 - the 1920s and the history of social and political thought from Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytsky's perspective / Serhii Yosypenko // Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. - 2017. - No. 4. - P. 53-66.