Political and Behind-the-Scenes Intrigues around the Hetmanate in 1709-1764: View of Ukrainian Historians
Abstract
The relevance of the paper is in the fact that now the historians’ community has got a great volume of collected research material that demands detailed studying, systematization, and generalization. Taking this into account, it is reasonable to pay attention to the scientific works of Ukrainian historians, focused on the study of the history of Hetmanate.
As of today, there are no researches with a systematic presentation of Ukrainian historians conceptual research bases, describing political peripeteias in the history of the Hetmanate of the period of 1709-1764, and this fact caused the choice of the research subject matter, the goal of which is to characterize the problem areas of studied political situation in Left-Bank Ukraine in the above-mentioned period.
The paper is based on the historiographical sources among which – monographs, scientific essays, and papers where the milestones of the political history of the Hetmanate of the 18th century are highlighted.
In the process of studying the issue, a complex of research methods is applied: an analysis method providing a comprehensive study of object components, and synthesis (a unification of these components in a unified system) and also special historical methods: chronological, historical and comparative, historical and typological and historical and genetic.
The problem areas, researched by Ukrainian historians while studying the history of the Hetmanate of the 18th century are determined in the paper, namely: attitude of the Hetmanate political elite to Petro I policy on the territory of Left-Bank Ukraine; peculiar features of establishing and functioning of Malorosiiska Kolehiia (Collegium of Little Russia); key aspects of origin and activity of the Cossack leaders through the prism of family ties; the liberalization processes in the Russian Empire after the death of Petro I and restoration of getmanship in Left-Bank Ukraine in 1727; «last page» of the existence of the Hetmanate.
The prospects of further study of the above-mentioned issues are determined and lie in the integration of the results of Ukrainian historical scientific researches in the context of this issue coverage in the general historiographical area, namely by comparing the conceptual foundations of Ukrainian historians with the highlighting of this issue by the historians of pre-revolutionary, Soviet historiography and the scholars from Diaspora.
References
Brekhunenko, V. (2014). Skhidna brama Yevropy. Kozatska Ukraina v seredyni VII-VIII st. [The Eastern gate of Europe. Cossack Ukraine in the middle of the 17th – 18th centuries]. Kyiv: Tempora [in Ukrainian].
Horobets, V.M. (1993). Do pytannia pro evoliutsiiu hetmanskoi vlady v Ukraini u pershii tretyni VIII st. [On the question of the evolution of the hetman’s power in Ukraine in the third part of the 18th century]. Ukrainskyi istorychnyi zhurnal, 3, 70-75 [in Ukrainian].
Horobets, V.M. (2004). Likvidatsiia avtonomii Hetmanatu Katerynoiu II yak syntez rosiiskoi pravliachoi dynastii tradytsionalizmu ta novatorstva ukrainskoi polityky [Liquidation of the autonomy of the Hetmanate by Catherine ІІ as a synthesis of the Russian ruling dynasty of traditionalism and the Ukrainian policy]. In: Smolii, V.A. (Ed.). Ukraina i Rosiia v istorychnii retrospektyvi: Narysy v 3-kh tomakh. Tom 1: Ukrainski proekty v Rosiiskii imperii (pp. 236-239). Kyiv: Naukova dumka [in Ukrainian].
Horobets, V.M. (2004). Peredumovy i mezhi liberalizatsii uriadovoi polityky Rosii shchodo ukrainskoi avtonomii druhoi chverti VIII st. [Prerequisites and limits of liberalization of the Russian government policy in relation to the Ukrainian autonomy of the second quarter of the 18th century]. In: Smolii, V.A. (Ed.). Ukraina i Rosiia v istorychnii retrospektyvi: Narysy v 3-kh tomakh. Tom 1: Ukrainski proekty v Rosiiskii imperii (pp. 225-236). Kyiv: Naukova dumka [in Ukrainian].
Horobets, V.M. (2004). Politychna elita Hetmanatu v yii stavlenni do vladnykh zmahan uriadu Petra I [The political elite of the Hetmanate in its attitude to the power contests of the government of Peter І]. In: Smolii, V.A. (Ed.). Ukraina i Rosiia v istorychnii retrospektyvi: Narysy v 3-kh tomakh. Tom 1: Ukrainski proekty v Rosiiskii imperii (pp. 201-217). Kyiv: Naukova dumka [in Ukrainian].
Horobets, V.M. (2004). Sotsialna rytoryka ta politychna vmotyvovanist reformy ustroiu Hetmanatu 1722 r. [Social rhetoric and political motivation for the reform of the Hetmanate system in 1722]. In: Smolii, V.A. (Ed.). Ukraina i Rosiia v istorychnii retrospektyvi: Narysy v 3-kh tomakh. Tom 1: Ukrainski proekty v Rosiiskii imperii (pp. 189-196). Kyiv: Naukova dumka [in Ukrainian].
Horobets, V.M. (2004). Utverdzhennia Malorosiiskoi kolehii pry vladi v Hetmanati [Strengthening of the Small Russian Board in power in the Hetmanate]. In: Smolii, V.A. (Ed.). Ukraina i Rosiia v istorychnii retrospektyvi: Narysy v 3-kh tomakh. Tom 1: Ukrainski proekty v Rosiiskii imperii (pp. 197-200). Kyiv: Naukova dumka [in Ukrainian].
Horobets, V.M. (2012). Starshyna Hetmanshchyny: nesluzhbovyi vymir sluzhbovoi kar’iery providnoi sotsialnoi verstvy [The Hetmanate’s officer: the unofficial career of the leading social layer]. Ukrainskyi istorychnyi zhurnal, 4, 52-66 [in Ukrainian].
Horobets, V.M. (2016). «Nam zgidno zvychaiu davnoho nashoho, toho hetmana obraty». Hetmanska elektsiia v tradytsii, pravovykh normakh i praktykakh Ukrainskoi derzhavy rannoho novoho chasu [«According to our long-standing custom we should choose that hetman». The election of a hetman in traditions, legal rules and practices of the Ukrainian state of the early modern times]. Ukraina v Tsentralno-Skhidnii Yevropi, 16, 186-206 [in Ukrainian].
Hurzhii, O. (1993). Ivan Skoropadskyi [Ivan Skoropadsky]. In: Zamlynskyi, V. (Ed.). Istoriia Ukrainy v osobakh: IX-XVIII st. (pp. 359-365). Kyiv: Ukraina [in Ukrainian].
Hurzhii, O.I. & Chukhlib, T.V. (1999). Hetmanska Ukraina [Hetman’s Ukraine]. Kyiv: Vydavnychyi dim «Alternatyvy» [in Ukrainian].
Kononenko, V. (2017). Modernizatsiia Hetmanshchyny: proekty kozatskoi administratsii 1687-1764 rr. [Modernization of the Hetmanate: Projects of the Cossack Administration in 1687-1764]. Kyiv: Instytut istorii Ukrainy NAN Ukrainy [in Ukrainian].
Kryvosheia, I.I. (2015). Neuriadova starshyna Hetmanshchyny XVII-XVIII st. u suchasnii ukrainskii istoriohrafii [The Hetmanate’s non-governmental officer of the 17th – 18th centuries in contemporary Ukrainian historiography]. Zbirnyk naukovykh prats Kharkivskoho natsionalnoho pedahohichnoho universytetu imeni H.S. Skovorody. Seriia: «Istoriia ta heohrafiia», 52, 81-87 [in Ukrainian].
Kryvosheia, V.V. (2008). Kozatska elita Hetmanshchyny [The Cossack elite of the Hetmanate]. Kyiv: IPiEND imeni I.F. Kurasa NAN Ukrainy [in Ukrainian].
Larchenko, V. (2014). Likvidatsiia politychnoi avtonomii Hetmanshchyny [Liquidation of the political autonomy of the Hetmanate]. Juvenia studia: zbirnyk studentskykh naukovykh prats, 4, 82-93 [in Ukrainian].
Melnyk, L.H. (1998). Retsenzia na knyhy: Panashenko V.V. Sotsialna elita Hetmanshchyny (druha polovyna XVII-XVIII st.). – K., 1995. – 212 s.; Panashenko V.V. Polkove upravlinnia v Ukraini (seredyna XVII-XVIII st.). – K., 1997. – 74 s. [Rewiew of the books: V.V. Panashenko: The social elite of the Hetmanate (the second half of the 17th – 18th centuries); V.V. Panashenko. Regimental government in Ukraine (the middle of the 17th – 18th centuries)]. Ukrainskyi istorychnyi zhurnal, 5, 128-131 [in Ukrainian].
Panashenko, V. (1993). Kyrylo Rozumovskyi [Kyrylo Razumovsky]. In: Zamlynskyi, V. (Ed.). Istoriia Ukrainy v osobakh: IX-XVIII st. (pp. 366-371). Kyiv: Ukraina [in Ukrainian].
Pryshliak, V. (2014). Sotsialna elita za hetmanuvannia Danyla Apostola [The social elite under the Hetman Danylo Apostol]. In: Smolii, V. (Ed.). Ukrainska derzhava druhoi polovyny XVII-XVIII st.: polityka, suspilstvo, kultura (pp. 159-202). Kyiv: Instytut istorii Ukrainy NAN Ukrainy [in Ukrainian].
Putro, O.I. (2002). Hetman Ukrainy Kyrylo Rozumovskyi (novi shtrykhy do sotsialno-politychnoho portreta) [Hetman of Ukraine Kyrylo Razumovsky (new touches to the social-political portrait)]. Ukrainskyi istorychnyi zhurnal, 5, 108-111 [in Ukrainian].
Radko, P.H. (2015). Kozatska derzhavnist v suchasnii istorychnii literature [The Cossack statehood in contemporary historical literature]. Istorychna pamiat, 33, 125-133 [in Ukrainian].
Strukevych, O.K. (1996). Ukraina-Hetmanshchyna ta Rosiiska imperiia protiahom 50-80-kh rr. XVIII st. (polityko-administratyvnyi aspekt problemy) [Ukraine – The Hetmanate and The Russian Empire in the 50-80s of the 18th century (political-administrative aspect of the problem)]. Kyiv: Instytut Istorii NAN Ukrainy [in Ukrainian].
Strukevych, O.K. (2002). Instytutsiia hetmanstva u polityko-kulturnomu spryiniatti starshynskoi elity Ukrainy-Hetmanshchyny [The political-cultural perception of the Hetmanate’s institution by the elite of the Cossack officers of Ukraine – The Hetmanate]. Ukrainskyi istorychnyi zhurnal, 4, 49-59 [in Ukrainian].
Sukhykh, L. & Vovk, O. (2008). Kyrylo Rozumovskyi: sproba vstanovlennia spadkovoho hetmanstva [Kyrylo Razumovsky: an attempt to establish a hereditary hetman]. Arkhivy Ukrainy, 3-4, 106-123 [in Ukrainian].
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
