MODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE SOUTHUKRAINIAN PEASANTRY OF THE END OF THE ХІХ – BEGINNING OF THE ХХ CENTURIES

Abstract

The starting point of writing the article was the understanding that the disclosure of the essence of social phenomena and processes in the Ukrainian countryside in the late nineteenth – early twentieth century. cannot be implemented without taking into account the regional component. An in-depth analysis of scientific achievements is an integral prerequisite for it. This will reveal not only the achievements and gaps in modern historical research on the subject, but also will clarify the state of domestic historiographical science. As the purpose of the article, the authors identified a study of modern scientific work on the social history of the southern Ukrainian peasantry of the late nineteenth – early twentieth century. Achieving it became possible due to the classification of modern historical research on the topic by subject and industry affiliation; identification of traditions and novations in the methodology and facts of modern historiography of social history of the southern Ukrainian peasantry; definitions achievements and gaps that take place in the scientific achievements on the topic of publication.

Search and analysis of modern historiographical facts on the subject of the publication was carried out using the method of cognitive umbrella. This allowed the authors to clarify the fact that some aspects of the social history of the southern Ukrainian peasantry in the late nineteenth – early twentieth century. revealed in research on agrarian and social history, the history of the peasantry, historical local lore, as well as ethnology, folklore, historical demography, statistic and psychology. It has been proved that neo-Marxism, neo-Weberianism and ethnomethodology are their methodological basis. It is revealed that in modern historiography the issues of social stratification, mobility of the southern Ukrainian peasantry, historical forms of social self-organization existing in its environment and institutional bases of regulation of everyday behavior are most widely revealed. However, such aspects as motivational structure, social consciousness, social portraits of the studied historical community remain insufficiently disclosed.