Historiographical image of Tadeusz Kostiushko on the pages of Lviv's polish and ukrainian scientific journals during the late ХІХ - early XX centuries

Abstract

The article's purpose. To reconstruct the historiographical image of Tadeusz Kostiushko, which was formed on the pages of the Polish and Ukrainian scientific historical press of Lviv at the end of the XIXth to the beginning of the XX century. On the basis of materials – the content of the two most significant for that time Polish and Ukrainian historical sciences magazines «Kwartalnik Historyczny» (published in Lviv in 1887 – 1939) and «Notes of the T. Shevchenko Scientific Society» (published in Lviv in 1892 – 1937). The methodology of the research is based on the principles of historicism, systemicity, science, verification, author's objectivity, moderate narrative constructivism, as well as the use of general scientific (analysis, synthesis, generalization) and special-historical (historical-genetic, historical-typological, historical-systemic ) methods. Scientific novelty is that for the first time attempt was made to reconstruct and compare the historiographical image of Tadeusz Kostiushko, which was formed on the pages of the Polish and Ukrainian scientific historical press of Lviv at the end of the XIXth to the beginning of the XX century. The conclusions. The study of texts on Tadeusz Kostiushko in the periodicals «Kwartalnik Historyczny» and «Notes of the T. Shevchenko Scientific Society» makes it possible to conclude that the authors of these editions, acting on principles of the positivist methodology, consistently de-mythologizing the image of the Polish national hero and tried to defend the objectivism of historical science, even if it contradicted the state of affairs at the moment and the political challenges of time