Cultural and historical epochs In Ukrayinska vilna akademiya nauk. Seriya: literatura, 1948, Pt. I, pp. 3-16

In this article, Dmytro Chyzhevskyi aims to explore how we understand separate cultural epochs. The author argues that in order to imagine their development, it is necessary to understand that each epoch is a whole, a system of movements and changes that have a common direction. He argues that for a historian, the study of a particular epoch is about discovering it, not constructing its structure. Modern history offers a scheme of historical development represented by a ‘living form’ of development. Chyzhevskyi proposes to apply pan-European schemes of cultural development to the study of the Ukrainian past in order to show that Ukrainian culture developed as part of European culture. In particular, the author proposes his own scheme for understanding cultural epochs, which he calls ‘wave’, but he acknowledges and analyses a number of problems that may arise with the proposed scheme.

Kateryna Skrypnyk