The problem of ethnicity of Chernyakhiv archeological culture in the scientific heritage of Mykhailo Braichevskyi (Проблема етнічної належності черняхівської археологічної культури в науковій спадщині Михайла Брайчевського)

Yaremchuk, V. P. (2019) The problem of ethnicity of Chernyakhiv archeological culture in the scientific heritage of Mykhailo Braichevskyi (Проблема етнічної належності черняхівської археологічної культури в науковій спадщині Михайла Брайчевського). Skhidnoievropeiskyi Istorychnyi Visnyk [East European Historical Bulletin] (Вип.11). pp. 190-202.

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Abstract

The purpose of the research is to determine the viewpoints of a famous archeologist,
historian of the ethnic development of Eastern Slavdom Mykhailo Braichevskyi (1924 – 2001) on the
ethnicity of Cherniakhiv archeological culture. The methodology of research includes a comparative historical approach (comparison of the historical concepts of Mykhailo Braichevskyi and other
historians), biographical approach (analysis of Mykhailo Braichevskyi’s life and career), method of
historiographic analysis (specific content of the research papers of Mykhailo Braichevskyi and other
Cherniakhiv culture historians) and historiographic synthesis (the formation of the general image
of Cherniakhiv culture in the legacy of Mykhailo Braichevskyi). The scientific novelty of the article
lies in the fact that for the first time Mykhailo Braichevskyi’s concept of the ethnicity of Cherniakhiv
culture is reconstructed and the factors that have defined it are stated. Conclusions. As far back as
in Soviet times, Mykhailo Braichevskyi developed a framework for the ethnic history of East Slavs
staring from the 1st and till the beginning of the 2nd millennium AD, with the concept of Cherniakhiv
population as the Slavs-Antes. The last were regarded by the scientist as the predecessors of the
South Western ethnic group of Eastern Slavdom (a conglomerate of six «tribes» called the Polianians) that started to adopt features of the Ukrainian ethnic community in the social and political
conditions of the second half of the 1st – the beginning of the 2nd century. While in Soviet times the
idea of Cherniakhiv population as the actual Pre-Ukrainians was concealed in terms of a comparatively politically «neutral» historical concept of the ethnic development of Eastern Slavdom, since
the beginning of the 1990s, due to the disappearance of government control over historical studies,
it has been openly promoted in his research papers.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: by fields of science > History
Divisions: The College of International Relationship > The Department of History
Depositing User: Галина Цеп'юк
Date Deposited: 24 Jan 2020 14:07
Last Modified: 24 Jan 2020 14:07
URI: https://eprints.oa.edu.ua/id/eprint/8098

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