REFLECTION OF THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS OF PEASANT COMMUNITY IN THE POST-SOVIET PERIOD IN THE ACADEMIC WORKS OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE KYIV SCHOOL OF HISTORIANS-AGRARIANS

Abstract

The social, political and socio-economic transformations in rural Ukraine after the declaration of independence in 1991 were one of the main lines of scientific research and of historical and cognitive interest, which realization has become an impulse to the appearance of the scientific agrarian studies for the purpose of constructive, comprehensive and objective research of the existence of rural Ukraine in the post-Soviet period. The article analyzes the publications of the representatives of the Kyiv School of Historians- Agrarians, which focused their research interest on characterizing agrarian transformations, the effectiveness of agrarian policy, its achievements and miscalculations, the logistic support of agriculture, the emergence of new organizational forms of management, on environmental issues and the settlement of the legislative framework on the agricultural sector of the Ukrainian economy in the post-Soviet period. It is noted, that national historical studies has a number of peculiarities, since the 90s of the twentieth century. First of all, they are generally deprived of ideological pressure, bias and influence of monomethodology. Furthermore, historians study all the aspects of the processes of being of Ukrainian peasantry in the contemporary environment. In the context of a broad generalization of the research subject, special attention was paid to the evaluation and analysis of fundamental, structured scientific projects, monographs, textbooks, and scientific researches of representatives of modern national agricultural studies.