ПОСТАТЬ Б. ХМЕЛЬНИЦЬКОГО В ЗАРУБІЖНІЙ АНГЛОМОВНІЙ ІСТОРІОГРАФІЇ

The article is devoted to Bohdan Khmelnytsky and to the events of Ukrainian national liberation revolution that attract attention of Ukrainian and foreign researchers. The importance of his activity and new studios, dedicated to understand the role of Bohdan Khmelnytsky for Ukrainian history of the seventeenth century aren’t lost topicality. Historians from different countries show an interest in this issue. Their results and conclusions vary considerably. Y. Mytsyk emphasizes that events of mid-seventeenth century attract an increasing attention of foreign researchers in Germany (A. Kappeler, H. Kumke, D. Zlepko), Canada and the USA (F. Sysyn, Y. Hayetskyy), Russia (L. Zaborowskiy, D. Sanin, B. Florya, T. Yakovleva) and, especially, Poland (Z. Vuytsik, J. Kachmarchyk, L. Pidgoretskiy, M. Nahelskyy, T. Hynczevska-Hennel, V. Serchyk and so on). The researcher considers the political program of Khmelnitsky. In his opinion, Bohdan Khmelnitsky had sought to independence when the uprising began. A number of different works about Bohdan Khmelnitsky and his activity were published in the English-speaking editions. Therefore, it is important to consider how Khmelnytsky was depicted and how his activity was assessed in these studies. In particular, this substantial publication devoted to the research of Pereyaslavs’ka agreement in English historiography belongs to F. Sysyn. The activity of B. Khmelnitsky was analyzed by Ivan Lysyak-Rudnytskiy, Zenon Kohut, P. Magochiy and so on. G. Vernadskiy, the author of a popular biography about B. Khmelnytsky, called him "the father of modern Ukraine". Orest Subtelniy believes B. Khmelnitsky was the person who had such decisive influence on the epochal events. He calls B.Khmelnitsky the greatest military and political figure of Ukraine. Perry Moryn analyzes activities of B. Khmelnitsky in the context of complex Cossack-Moscow relations, which are also influenced by the requirements of Moscow to issue an impostor Timothy Ankudynov. K. Anisimov considers the problem of Cossack Hetmanate expansion of B. Khmelnitsky in English historiography. He notes that the events of 1648-1654 have spread in foreign historians, especially in western historiography of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He introduces the position of English-speaking authors: British historians D. Bella, A. Dz. Toynbi, Canadian – O. Hrehorovych, V. Bozhenskiy, American – V. Sichynskiy, B. Antonenko-Davidovich. English-language works about Ukrainian history are analyzed by S. Baturina. The problems that Ukrainian historians study about the seventeenth century in Ukraine and the activity of Bohdan Khmelnitsky are varied, and demonstrate the relevance, usefulness and prospects of further study of this subject. The article focuses on ambiguous assessments of Ukrainian revolution of the seventeenth century, activities and motives of Bohdan Khmelnitsky.

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