SUMMARY:

This article argues that Soviet-style historical methodology persists in contemporary Ukrainian historiography at the level of both terminology (itself reflecting historians’ understanding of causation) and the conceptual framework, in which the dominant grand narrative of the nation hinders the transition to modern microhistorical, regional-history, and cultural-history approaches. The reign of traditional national history has only recently been challenged from within the Ukrainian historical profession, and a serious debate about historical methodology has yet to unfold.