PAVLO SKOROPADSKY’S POLICY IN THE FIELD OF CULTURE AND EDUCATION

Abstract

The purpose of the study to analyze the policy of Pavlo Skoropadsky in the educational andcultural spheres, and to determine its impact on the development of education and culture during the periodof Pavlo Skoropadsky’s hetmanate. The research methods were determined by the nature of the subject and object of the research. The study and coverage of the issues of the topic was carried out according to the problem-chronological principle. Scientific conclusions are based on the analysis and generalization of a complex of sources and literature; the entire discourse of the problem is traced in close connection with changes in socio-political and economic living conditions in the period 1917–1921. Research methodology were determined by the nature of the subject and object of research. The study and coverage of the issues of the topic was carried out according to the problem-chronological principle. Scientific conclusions are based on the analysis and generalization of a complex of sources and literature; the entire discourse of the problemis traced in close connection with changes in socio-political and economic living conditions in the period 1917–1921. The scientific novelty The research consists in conceptual formulation and comprehensive study of Pavlo Skoropadsky’s policy in the educational and cultural spheres. Considerable historical infor-mation has been introduced into scientific circulation, drawn from published documents and periodicals, archival materials, as well as from scientific literature devoted to the issue of studying Pavlo Skoropadsky’s cultural policy. The obtained results of the scientific search are important for the theoretical generalizationof the study of the Ukrainian state, namely, educational and cultural policy in the state-building process.Conclusions. Pavlo Skoropadsky’s policy was aimed at the development of Ukrainian education, namely: primary, secondary, and higher, in particular the opening of universities, which in turn had a significantimpact on the development of national culture.