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Information × Registration Number 0226U000219, (0124U002137) , R & D reports Title Anti-imperial narratives in Ukrainian humanitarianism of the 20th century through the prism of biographies of scientists popup.stage_title В тіні імперії: ролі науковців у політичних процесах та політика у працях науковців Head Kravets Danylo M., Кандидат історичних наук Registration Date 06-01-2026 Organization Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine popup.description1 The aim of the presented project statement is to study the history of Ukrainian humanities through the prism of the biographies of scientists during the age of empires - XX - early XXI centuries: studying the activities of representatives of various scientific environments and their contacts with other scientific communities; analysis of methodological approaches to scientific research by scientists and their reading circle; study of the role of scientists in political processes and politics in the work of scientists - as one of the important elements of Ukrainian nation-building at the time when Ukrainian lands were part of the Russian Empire and the USSR. popup.description2 The project proposes a comprehensive study of the anti-imperial history of Ukrainian humanities through the prism of the scholarly activity of five prominent yet still insufficiently studied figures whose intellectual trajectories were closely intertwined with anti-imperial discourses: Bohdan Zaklynskyi (1886–1946)—a well-known Ukrainian cultural and civic activist, local historian, educator, and pidkhorunzhyi of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen; Mykhailo Vozniak (1881–1954)—a literary scholar and Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR; Mykhailo Demkovych-Dobrianskyi (1905–2003)—a historian and journalist who, while in emigration, headed the Ukrainian Service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich; Yaroslav Dashkevych (1926–2010)—a historian and orientalist who, despite persecution by the Soviet authorities, prolonged periods of unemployment, and bans on publishing his scholarly works, made a substantial contribution to the development of Ukrainian historical scholarship; and Bohdan Yakymovych (1952–2022)—a historian and Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine. The implementation of Stage II of the project envisages the accomplishment of the following tasks: – to review the historiography of the proposed topic and to compile a historical-bibliographical database of the scholarly output of the figures under study; – to examine source materials preserved in archival institutions in Ukraine and abroad; – to organize and hold a nationwide scholarly and theoretical conference at which the research findings will be presented, and to compile a volume of conference papers and reports; – to prepare for publication a collective monograph on the project theme, Anti-Imperial Discourses in the Scholarly Legacy of Ukrainian Intellectuals of the Twentieth Century: B. Zaklynskyi, M. Vozniak, M. Demkovych-Dobrianskyi, Y. Dashkevych, and B. Yakymovych. Product Description popup.authors Danylo M. Kravets Pirko Mariia I. Rizun Nazar T. popup.nrat_date 2026-01-06 Close