Kim Minseun, PhD Student

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2640.2021.150.6


REVIEW GENRE IN THE SCIENTIFIC WORKS OF MARKO VARSHAVCHYK (1918-2001)

The scientific achievements of M. Ya. Varshavchyk have been studied, his review publications have been singled out and analyzed. It was found that during his scientific life the scientist published 18 reviews of new publications in historical source studies, archiving and special historical disciplines. Among the whole array of reviews, attention is focused on the review and analysis of his responses to works on theoretical source studies, problems of source practice, issues of methodology and methods of research, critique of sources and more. It is established that the scientific work of the scientist began with the publication of a review of a textbook on the theory and practice of archival work. Priority topics and leading topics that were of scientific interest to M. Ya. Varshavchyk were identified. Among them: the structure of historical source studies, the relationship between methodology and methods of source studies, historiography of source studies, quantitative methods in historical research, special disciplines and their place in historical source studies.

Particular attention is paid to reviews of collections of documents, archeographic publications, where there are full / selected texts of documents, their interpretation, dating, comments and notes, issues of textual analysis of the original text.

It is noted that, as a rule, reviews have been published in leading professional journals in historical sciences.

Key words: source studies, source theory, historiography, review, methodology, classification, critique of sources.

Submitted: 01.06.2021

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