On the issue of the ideological policy in the Ukrainian historical science in 1970s (a stenograph of the Feudalism History Department of the Institute of History ofthe AS of Ukrainian SSR meeting concerning O. S. Kompan’s review of the edition “History of Ukrainian Art”)

Abstract

In the publication the author presents a meeting protocol of the Feudalism History Department of the AS of Ukrainian SSR of November 15, 1967). The Department meeting was held in order to discuss (practically, to denounce) an article of a Senior Research Fellow, Doctor of Historical Sciences Olena Kompan. The article entitled “Ukrainian Renaissance. The historian’s refl ections on the issues of Art Studies”, published in the newspaper “Literary Ukraine” (October 17, 1967) was a review of the fi rst two volumes of the “History of Ukrainian Art”. The article indeed was discussed on the meeting, however it was not crucifi ed, as most of the meeting participants supported the reviewer. The colleagues of Olena Kompan, M. Braichevsky, O. Apanovych, K. Stetsiuk and D. Myshko expressed their opinions concerning her article. The publication preface contains the history of Olena Kompan’s article-review, main conclusions and provisions, as well as the feedback the article received from numerous readers, colleagues and party’s “academicians”.