“The Ukrainian Historical Journal” (Ukraïns’kyi istorychnyi zhurnal) appeared on the tide of Khrushchov’s “thaw” and went through rather difficult stages of its formation and development. Within the period of its existence Ukrainian people have experienced stirring and even crucial events, such as partial liberalization, Brezhnev’s “stagnation era”, “malanchukivshchyna”, “perestroika” and, finally, construction of their own independent state. Naturally, the Journal did not exist in a vacuum environment. All these contradictory processes, one way or another, impacted on its activities. Varying political situations, ideological pressure, changes of the editors-in-chief and editorial staff could not but affected the Journal’s subject matter, its scientific level and historical impartiality of its publications. |
