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Commentary on Papers by Professors Horak and Zaprudnik

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Herbert J. Ellison*
Affiliation:
Institute for Comparative and Area Studies, University of Washington

Extract

Our focus is upon problems of periodization in Belorussian and Ukrainian history. It is tempting, and perhaps even useful, at the outset of this commentary to speculate on what would be the problems addressed in a discussion of this subject had the 1917 revolution resulted in genuine national independence for the main nationalities of the Russian Empire, followed by nearly sixty years of relatively free scholarship within the context of democratic societies. Probably the early period would not have been too different from what actually occurred in the Soviet Union, with a considerable flourishing of the various national historiographies and with vigorous research into the unique elements of the particular national heritage. Indeed, we have the example of the inter-war Baltic states before us which seems to support such speculation.

Type
Problems of Periodization and Terminology in the Histories of Belorussians and Ukrainians
Copyright
Copyright © Association for the Study of Nationalities, 1975 

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