Academician M.Hrushevskyi and People’s Commissar of Education M.Skrypnyk in the Context of the Communisation of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1927–1931)

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to highlight the complex relationship between academician M.Hrushevskyi and people’s commissar for education of the UkrSSR M.Skrypnyk during the struggle of the Central Committee of Communist Party for ideological control over the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. The objectives of the article are the historical reconstruction of the transformation of former ideological opponents – the leader of the Ukrainian People’s Republic and the head of the UkrSSR government – into situational companions in the controversial process of Ukrainization and communisation of academic institutions, significant differences in the views.

The research methodology is based on the principles of historicism, scientific systematism problematic-chronological, historical-biographical, comparative, analytical methods are used.

Scientific novelty of this paper is determined by the formulation and comprehensive study of specific conditions, motives, latent actions, ideological differences in the relations between academician M.Hrushevskyi and people’s commissar M.Skrypnyk. It is also important to compare the last periods of their lives.