Two anniversaries of Academician Valeriі Smoliі
To the 75th anniversary of his birth and 30th anniversary of creative and scientific-organizational activities as the editor-in-chief of the “Ukrainian Historical Journal”
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https://doi.org/10.15407/visn2025.01.090Abstract
January 1, 2025, marks the 75th anniversary of the birth of a prominent Ukrainian historian, specialist in medieval and early modern history, initiator and organizer of numerous key projects of Ukrainian historical science in the 1990s and 2000s, public figure, vice prime minister of Ukraine for humanitarian policy (1997—1999), full knight of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise and the Order of Merit, Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2001), Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine (1998), Director of the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (since 1993), Doctor of Historical Sciences (1985), Professor (1999), Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1995), Academician-Secretary of the Department of History, Philosophy and Law (since 2015) Valerii Smolii. This life anniversary coincides with the 30th anniversary of his creative, scientific, and organizational activity as the chief scientific editor of the “Ukrainian Historical Journal”. The article briefly highlights the background of the Ukrainian historians’ efforts aimed at championing a scientific journal in Soviet Ukraine. The author emphasizes the exceptional role of the journal in the formation of the institutional network of Ukrainian historical science in the post-Stalin era. The horizon of challenges faced by the journal's editor-in-chief in the 1990s has been outlined. The metamorphosis of the journal from a periodical of republican and later post-Soviet scholarship to a modern institutional platform for Ukrainian historians has been considered. The role of the editor-in-chief in shaping and changing the editorial policy of the journal in the 2000s has been highlighted, particularly in light of the demands and challenges of the current Russian-Ukrainian war.
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