UKRAINIAN HISTORICAL SCIENCE IN THE SECOND POLISH REPUBLIC: INSTITUTIONAL ASPECT

Abstract

Thepurposeofthestudyistoreconstruct the institutional structure of the Ukrainian historical science in the Second Polish Republic. Themethodologiicalfoundationofthestudyisan interdisciplinaryapproach. Primarily, it is a structural-functional systemic analysis of historiographical facts and a comparative historical method, based on the principle of objectivity and historicism. We also apply the methods of periodisation, classification and typologisation.Thescientificnovelty of this articleisthecomplexanalysisoftheinstitutionalhistoryofthe UkrainianHumanitiesduringthetimesofinterwarPoland. The Conclusions. The UkrainianscientistsintheinterwarPolandsometimes collaboratedwiththePolishgovernment, however, mostly, theyopposeditsnationalculturalpolicy.Regardlessthedynamics of their relationship, theymanagedtoadapttotheexistingconditionsquitewell. They preserved the existing institutional potential of the Ukrainian Humanities, while adequately reacting to social political and cultural challenges.Despitea chronicalpovertyandlackoffinancialresources, theyinitiatedthefoundationofneworganisationalstructuresthat were designed to moderate the most dynamic branches of the Ukrainian studies.Another peculiar feature was that the UkrainianscienceofthosetimeswasdividedbetweenWarsawandLviv. Unfortunately, despite the presence of an active communication between Galician and Dnipro scholars in emigration, they did not manage to establish a solid interinstitutional collaboration.Asaresult, someorganisationalstructuresjustobtainedtheir "twins", which, ifweconsiderscarcefinancialandhumanresources, ledtounjustifiedexpenses. Moreover, it led to incoherence in scientific projects and thus, to personal conflicts.Nevertheless, those institutions were of a crucial importance, as the emigrants later relocated them to the countries of the "free world". That helped the Ukrainian science to survive the communist regime and preserve the institutional memory