Stepanchuk Y. The image of Bohdan Khmelnytsky in the newest Ukrainian, Russian and Polish historiography

In the dissertation, a comprehensive comparative study of the concepts of life and activity of B. Khmelnytsky, one of the key figures of the early modern Ukrainian and Eastern European history, was worked out in contemporary Ukrainian, Polish and Russian historiography. The state of the problem research is analyzed, the representative source base has been formed and the methodology and the conceptual research strategy have been worked out. The basic approaches, inherent to the mentioned historiographies, the connection with the previous historiographical tradition, intellectual competition and mutual influence are traced; the content of the images of B. Khmelnytsky was clarified and created in the late 80’s of the twentieth century – at the beginning of the XXI century.