Current state of the scientific heritage study of the Ukrainian agricultural history (late XIX – early XX century)

The article focuses on the analysis of modern literature articulated on the present state of Ukrainian scientific study of the heritage of the Ukrainian agrarian history researchers (late XIX - early XX century) It is emphasized that there was a break of modern scientific views with the views of the Soviet researchers of agrarian history of Ukraine. Nowadays the Ukrainian scientists use modern historical heritage of European and world historiography. The rapid institutionalization of peasant centres, in particular the Scientific Society of Historians and Agrarians and the Research Institute of the Peasantry (Cherkasy), has a systematic nature. Symposiums, international and all- Ukrainian conferences, round tables, readings and seminars are conducted regularly. The agrarian history of that period was also studied in specialized magazine “UkrainskyiSelianyn” (2000-2018), regional editions, including university heralds, and in a number of local regional studies. Analytical interpretation of this issue is found in studies of O. Reent, who analyzed the contribution of some American, Russian and Ukrainian historians to Russian Empire agrarian system research. V. Shevchenko systematically studied this issue by analyzing the contribution of pre-revolutionary, Soviet and individual modern Russian - V. Berlihin, O. Vronsky, L. Zakharov, L. Milov, V. Tukavkin, M. Shicillo, and also Ukrainian scientists: V.Marochko, O . Reent, V. Khmil, T. Lazanska, Y. Prysyazhnyuk. V. Bondar devoted considerable attention to this issue, analyzing the inheritance of numerous historians who presented the study of agricultural history and peasant-related problems in general in both the pre-Soviet and Soviet periods. He also revealed the activities of historians-agrarians of modern peasant study institutions and centers. It should be noted, that special attention is devoted to the works of modern Ukrainian researchers who study the structure of the agricultural peasantry in the period, namely agricultural policy, as a historiographical problem; economic processes in rural areas and the consequences of agrarian reforms. The scientist did not ignore the study of the social history of the peasantry conducted by contemporary historians and agrarians. The author pays attention to the achievements in the field of studying the social aspects of the rural population and the contribution of scholars to the modern historiography of the socio-legal status of the Ukrainian peasantry. The author used 814 works on peasant-related problems and made the direct and indirect analysis of more than 700 works by different authors. The analysis of the researched topic showed that in general, the most “recognizable” are the following modern scholars: V. Smolii, O. Reent, S. Kulchytsky, R. Pyrig, L. Zashkilnyak V. Soldatenko, V. Verstiuk V. Telvak, F. Turchenko, O.Zhhitkova, L. Bazhenov, V. Bond ar, V. Vivtoniv, V. Vlasenko, O. Gerasymenko, V. Hotsuliak, V. Dubinsky, V. Zhuchenko, V. Ivanenko, M. Kovalsky, L. Korogod , A. Kostenko, A. Kotsur, V. Krot, E. Kostyk A. Kruglashov, O. Kucheruk, T. Lypovska, V. Marochko, V. Mazurik, V. Masnenko, A. Lymar, O. Medalieva, V. Melnychenko, V. Myronchuk, O. Mykhayliuk, Y. Prysiazhnyuk, V. Moisienko, V. Molchanov , A. Morozov, Z. Pershina, O. Rakhno, O. Reent, S. Svitlenko, M. Smolnitska, N. Temirova, A. Tymoshenko, S. Tovstolyak, N. Tokar, I. Farenii, A. Shevchenko,. O. Yurkova, Yu .Yarchenko, A. Arhipova, etc.) and also M. Kostomarov, P. Kulish, V. Antonovych, M. Hrushevsky, M. Drahomanov, S. Podolynsky, A. Rusov, S. Rusova, I. Petrunkevych, M. Levytsky, M. Mallin, V. Lipinsky, M. Leshchenko, V. Guldman, A. Antsiferov, I. Pavlovsky, O. Chuprov, G. Galagan, M. Tugan-Baranovsky, M. Lyvytsky, M .Simonov (Nomis), M. Kononenko, V. Tarnovsky, V. Domanytsky. O. Chernenko, O. Domantovych, I. Gurzhia, D. Poyda, R. Lyakh and other historians-agrarians and researchers of agrarian issues.