PRINCIPAL GENERAL RESEARCH METHODS IN HISTORICAL SCIENCES

The article discusses the question of the application in historical research of two pairs of General sci- entific methods of cognition, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction. Examples of using these methods founders of the national historical science. It is argued that analytical method, which means disassembly, dismemberment of the whole into its individual components, helps to identify the object of historical research primarily such problems as the development of economic and political relations, domestic and foreign policy, cultural processes, issues of political, social, scien- tific, educational and entrepreneurial activities of historical characters