Prospects of peasant studies as areas of researchof modern ukrainian historiography

Abstract

The article is devoted to the tasks currently encountered by Ukrainian historians – researchers of peasant issues. The author sees their solution in several areas: first, by attracting a new spectrum of visual sources (photos), and also through the use of epistemological approaches offered by the latest European (world) humanitaristics. It promises good cognitive perspectives for peasant studies, in particular the elimination of a noticeable gap that has long existed in Ukrainian historiography between interpretive models of the «traditional village» and «modern» city of the late nineteenth and first third of the twentieth century