HUMAN REASONS ASSESSMENT OF THE UNITY OF UKRAINE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15330/gal.32.198-204Keywords:
anthropological approach, human studies dimension, historiography, Ukrainian National Republic (UNR), The Western Ukrainian People’s Republic (ZUNR), Reunion Act, the unity of Ukraine, unity processAbstract
The aim is to analyze the latest Ukrainian historiography from the point of view of its specificity human comprehension of the Unity of Ukraine as a long process of approval state and spiritual unity of society, elucidation of the role of the human factor in itself unity process and its research, as well as the significance of the Unity for human.
On the basis of the application of a complex of methods of analysis of Ukrainian historiography 1991- 2018 years highlights the methodology and the nature of the anthropological approach to the study of the Unity Ukraine, substantiates the shift of attention from specific events and documents to their participants and creators, on people involved in the processes. Highlighted three stages of historiography of the Unity: the first – 1991–2004 years; the second – between the Orange Revolution and the Revolution of Dignity and the third – modern.
The dominant trends in the study of the problem are monitored, in particular: the transition from the illumination of the Unity as the Unification Act to interpreting it as a long process and transit; Unity became the object of interdisciplinary research; application of civilization and anthropological approach to comprehension
of the Unity and the transition from studying the history of events to the history of people. Singled out three segments of the object of a human-oriented view of the problem: ideological inspiration, organizers and participants of the unity process; carriers of the unity idea; researchers of the Unity.
Expressed suggestions and recommendations on the further study of the Unity, the establishment of the state and spiritual unity of Ukrainian society, drawn attention to the need to fill the human meaning of “the unity of Ukraine”, “Ukrainian unity”, “the Unity of Ukrainian culture and mentality”, search and study the optimal model and ways of practical assertion of the united Ukraine as an independent one, integral, territorially indivisible, a democratic European state in terms of integration and globalization processes.
