Поширення українсько-польських історичних міфологем у польській історіографії кінця ХІХ — першої третини ХХ ст.
Amplification of Ukrainian-Polish myphologems in Polish historiography at the end of the XIX-the first third of the XX cent

Summary/Abstract: The article is concerned with historical myths in the Ukrainian-Polish relations, process of their formation and dissemination in the public consciousness. The influence of such myphologems as “Jagiellonian idea”, myth of “unified nation of the old Polish state”, “the idea of the old Polish state mission in the East”, the idea of “bastion of the Christian world”, myth “of the Eastern cress”, etc., on the modern depiction of the history of Ukraine in Polish historical science at the end of the XIX — the first third of the XX cent. is discussed in the paper. These myths made it impossible to have an objective interpretation of the Ukrainian issues and contributed to distortion of the historical process. Politicians, historians and artists of these two countries helped to preserve negative Ukrainian-Polish historical myths that were deeply enrooted in collective culture and played an important part in the formation of social consciousness of the Poles and the Ukrainians. Up to this time Ukrainian and Polish historiographies can not overcome these myths, however some intellectuals are acting resolutely to get over the negative mutual perception which was formed from century to century.

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