The idea of ​​the academy in Ukrainian scientific and public thought of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: texts and contexts

To the 100th anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Authors

  • O. Yas Doctor of Historical Sciences (Dr. Hab. in History), Leading Research Fellow, Department of Ukrainian Historiography, Institute of History of Ukraine NAS of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2018.06.004

Keywords:

Antonovych, Hrushevskyi, Drahomanov, Barvinskyi, Konyskyi, Krymskyi, Shevchenko Scientific Society, Ukrainian Academy.

Abstract

In this article lightens up the origin of the idea of the Ukrainian Academy as a joint plan of the Dnipro and Halychyna intellectuals at the turn of the 1880–1890s. Author considered the texts of scholars and socio-cultural figures of the late 19th – early 20th  centuries with the idea of its constitution. Analyzed the various contexts that generated as the ascension and the attenuation of this idea circulation. The important role of the international macrocontexts, such as the establishment of academies of a number of Slavic nations, the Austro-Russian confrontation at the end of the 20th century, the attempts of Ukrainian-Polish understanding in the format of a "new era" policy, the creation and activity of the International Association of Academies, competitions around the project of Slavic Academies Union and etc. It is shown the significance of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv and the Ukrainian Scientific Society in Kyiv as institutional areas, which tried to implement the project of transformation or constitution of the National Academy before the World War I. The opinion is expressed that the scientific-organizational practices of M.Hrushevskyi were for the most part aimed at the institutional development of both societies as the basis of the future Ukrainian academy. Author also noted that the idea of the academy was an important part of the national project aimed at the formation of cultural and political Ukrainians. The thesis argues that for several decades, the idea of the academy was born in embryonic form, which formed two concepts of its constitution, which were updated and demanded during 1917–1918.

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Published

2018-07-10

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Yas , O. (2018). The idea of ​​the academy in Ukrainian scientific and public thought of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: texts and contexts: To the 100th anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Ukrainian Historical Journal, (6), 4–32. https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2018.06.004

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