Soviet Ukrainian Historiography in Brezhnev’s Closed City: Mykola/Nikolai Kovalsky and His “School” at the Dnipropetrovsk University
Andriy Portnov, Tetiana Portnova
4/2017
SUMMARY:
The article discusses the late Soviet phenomenon of Mykola Kovalsky’s school of Ukrainian history at the Dnipropetrovsk University. The authors reconstruct the multiple contexts that informed Kovalsky’s career choices and scholarship that problematize the notion of “national historiography.”