Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the French Slavic Studies of the First Third of the Twentieth Century: Problems of Reception
Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the French Slavic Studies of the First Third of the Twentieth Century: Problems of Reception

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to the study of the peculiarities of the discussion of historiographical concepts and socio-political initiatives of M. Hrushevsky in French scientific literature and journalism of the first third of the 20th century. The process of the Ukrainian historian establishing relations with French intellectuals (A. Mazon, P. Bouillet, J. Pelissier, etc.) and his purposeful work on popularizing the scientific achievements of Ukrainian studies in the French language have been reconstructed. The result was numerous reviews of the works of the Ukrainian historian on the pages of “Le Monde Slave”, “Revue des Études Slaves” and “Les Annales des nationalités”. The article has summarized that discovering the previously unknown East Slavic nation thanks to the works and periodicals of M. Hrushevsky, his French colleagues unanimously wrote about the scientist as a wake-up call for his compatriots and a tireless popularizer of Ukrainian cultural heritage among the Western European intelligentsia. In general, the analyzed French Hrushevsky studies became an important component of the Ukrainian-French intellectual dialogue of the first third of the 20th century.

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