Lunyak Y. Cyrillo - Methodian society in historical researches of the second half of the XIX - XX centuries.

Cyrillo - Methodian society in historical researches of the second half of the XIX - XX centuries. Investigation of the evolution of an image of Cyrillo - Methodian society in the historical literature in the second half of the ХIX-XX centuries. The methods of investigation are comparative-historical, historical-genetical and personological. The complex analysis of historical researches of Cyrillo - Methodian society in the second half of the ХIX-XX centuries, from occurrence of the first mentions about it in the literature up to the modern period is made in the thesis. The attempt of periodization and ordering historiography of this problem is made. Special attention is inverted on a complex of the literature, which earlier was not investigated or was ignored in Soviet historiography (work of the foreign and Ukrainian dyasporial researchers, repressional Soviet historians). The evolution of an image of the society in the historical literature and general tendencies for the certain periods is covered.