Popyk Volodymyr

The challenges of turbulent times and new horizons of Ukrainian biography

Section: Biographical research under war conditions

Abstract: The purpose of the study is to analyze the new challenges and tasks that have arisen before Ukrainian biography, as an important direction of national humanitarian science and culture, in the conditions of resistance to Russian aggression. The scientific novelty consists in the conceptual outline of the ripe problems and tasks of domestic biography in the new socio-political conditions, as well as ways of solving them, defining directions on which it is expedient to focus the attention of the professional community. The methodological foundations of the research are based on the complex use of the methods of social and humanitarian sciences, the analysis of the development of scientific thought, in particular, in the aspects of scientific and informational tasks of biography in the context of social and political process es related to the consolidation of Ukrainian society. Conclusions. Research activities, literary and artistic, journalistic biographies and all other forms of dissemination and promotion of biographical knowledge in the mass media and in the electronic information space should be directed first of all to the disclosure of the experience of many generations and our contemporaries in confronting the challenges of time, their spiritual stability, ability to endure the blows of fate, under the most difficult circumstances to keep faith in the rightness and victory of one’s struggle, to concentrate efforts on solving national tasks. In their activities, domestic researchers and practitioners of publishing and information work can confidently rely on significant theoretical-methodological and scientific-methodological achievements of recent years, creatively developing them and enriching the problem-thematic range, variety of forms, methods, genres of biographical writing. Systematization and improvement of the forms of publicizing numerous oral historical biographical materials – testimonies of participants and witnesses of war events, which are currently collected by professional researchers and amateurs, state institutions, public organizations, and volunteers – are of particular importance in modern conditions. In addition to the high patriotic, mobilizing role that these documents play in uniting Ukrainian society, establishing a general belief in victory, professional researchers should work to collect and preserve for posterity documentary sources that reveal the feat of our people through a collective portrait of compatriots.

Keywords: Ukrainian biography, Russian aggression, Ukrainians facing the challenges of wars and social upheavals, intellectual and spiritual capital, patriotic consolidation of society.

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• Popyk Volodymyr (V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, Ukraine, Kyiv, [email protected]) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8746-1026

Cite:
Popyk Volodymyr (2022). The challenges of turbulent times and new horizons of Ukrainian biography. Biographistica Ukrainica, (23) 13-43. (In Ukrainan). https://doi.org/10.15407/ub.23.013

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