Галичина на ментальних мапах українців ХІХ – початку ХХ століття

Abstract

Розглянуто позиціонування Галичини в просторово-географічних уяв- леннях простих та освічених українців ХІХ – початку ХХ сто- ліття.

Рассмотрено позиционирование Галиции в пространственно-географических предста- влениях простых и образованных украинцев XIX – начала ХХ века.

The article examined the idea of Ukrainian masses and intellectuals of the 19 century on the role and place of Galicia in the space of Eastern Europe. Galicia occupied an important place as the past’s marker linked it with the ancient Kievan Rus’ in the cultural consciousness of modern Ukrainians. During the formation of the modern world and national consciousness in the 19 century Galicia became the mental bridge between ancient Rus’, Ukrainian Cossacks and modernity Ukrainian idea. This was due not so much folk traditions and memory as the constructive creative work of Ukrainian historians, poets and writers, who in the conditions of democratization of social relations have relied on the broad masses of peasants, resisted the modernist industrial urban cosmopolitan culture of imperial quality and were bearer of specific ethnic features. The Ukrainian national movement, which in the twentieth century sought to achieve national unity divided Ukrainian territories, trying to reverse the traditional ideological influence of the Polish and Russian great power thinking. However, as can be seen in the beginning of the 21 century, the territorial and mental differences, but now primarily due to events of the twentieth century, remains perceptible in modern unified state of Ukraine.