Kondratev I. Liubech's shliahta: the genesis and evolution of regional military serving forming in XV - XVIII centuries

The object of study - Liubech's shliahta - the social forming with its territory, that existed in the Northern Left-bank Ukraine in XV - XVIII century. The purpose of study is the complex study of a history of Liubech's shliahta on an extent of XV - XVIII century. The methods used in the research are: problem-chronological, historical-genetic, historical-comparative, prosopografical. The practical value of the dissertation consists in use of the facts, given in work, conclusions and supervision in the further researches on a history of Ukraine, at creation of generalizing works and manuals. Besides the materials of the dissertation can be used during teaching a history of Ukraine on the average and higher school. The dissertation is devoted to the history of Liubech's shliahta - the social forming with its territory, that existed in the Northern Left-bank Ukraine in XV - XVIII century. The full research of the topic gave a chance to find out the reasons and factors in forming process of Liubech's shliahta, the regional peculiarities of this military serving community. This work is the first one to lighten the role of Liubech's shliahta in Ukraine's early modern history, its place in the forming process of kossak's upper class and the building of hetman's state. The reasons of decline and gradual intermixture of Liubech's shliahta with new social structures were characterized as well as the factors of nobility process of its descendants in late XVIII century. .6156