This book elucidates complex and long process of the "Ukrainian Historical Journal" transformation from the republican professional publication, founded in 1957 to a modern journal of Ukrainian historians. Esseys and materials connected with the journal's history are published in two main segments: 1) materials covering the history of Ukraine in the Soviet and post-Soviet times; 2) esseys with analytical interpretation of journal's publications and its changes with regards to the defi nite problems, topics, periods and epochs of the history of Ukraine, in particular, history of the Middle Ages and early modern history, history of the XIX — the early XX centuries, the Ukrainian revolution of 1917-1921, inter-war and post-war history of Soviet Ukraine, Ukrainian dimension of the history of World War II, and also studying the problems of the world history in the journal's publications, etc.

• FOREWORD … 7

TWO ЕRAS OF THE JOURNAL: ANNIVERSARY FLASHBACKS, EVIDENCE OF THE TIMES AND MODERN REFLECTIONS

• Interview by the Chief Scientifi c Editor of the "Ukrainian Historical Journal", academician at the NAS of Ukraine Valerii Smolii on oc casion of the 60th Anniversary of edition (Written down by Oleksandr Donik) … 17
• Address by the Chief Editor to readers of the fi rst issue of the "Ukrainian Historical Journal": program article by Fedir Shevchenko from 1957 (Introduction article and publication by Oleksii Yas) … 33
• Shevchenko F. About the court of history (To the 60th Anniversary for establishment of the "Ukrainian Historical Journal” and the 50th Anniversary of the fi rst publication of the article by F. Shevchenko (Introduction article and publication by Oleksii Yas) …  51
• Rubliov O. The "Ukrainian Historical Journal": offi cial and behind-the-scenes history (1957-1988) … 73
• The "Ukrainian Historical Journal" in the mirror of Diaspora journals: digest for 1958-1992 (Introduction article and publication by Oleksii Yas) … 124

CONSTRUCTING THE HISTORY OF UKRAINE IN THE JOURNAL KALEIDOSCOPE OF ERAS AND PERIODS

• Matiakh V. Middle Ages and early modern construct of the "Ukrainian Historical Journal": problem species composition and heuristic perspectives … 175
• Batsak N., Reient O. Problems and directions of researches, devoted to the history of Ukraine in the XIX — at the beginning of the XX century in historiographic practice of the "Ukrainian Historical Journal" (1957-2017) … 224
• Verstiuk V. Revolution of 1917-1921 in different formats (turning over the issues of the "Ukrainian Historical Journal") … 275
• Kulchytskyi S. Interwar and postwar history of Soviet Ukraine on pages of the "Ukrainian Historical Journal" (1957-2017) …  296
• Lysenko O., Pastushenko T. Modern discourse of the Second World War through the prism of publications in the "Ukrainian Historical Journal" during recent decade … 316
• Vidnianskyi S., Martynov A. The research on problems of the world history as an important factor for development of national historical science (due to materials from the "Ukrainian Historical Journal") …  342