MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF UKRAINE

Odessa State Economic University

GUIDELINE

for students work in the study subjects

"HISTORY OF UKRAINE"

for students of all specialties

Odessa 2012

PREVIEW

Dear students! Your attention offered guidelines on the ”History of Ukraine” course. It includes a program for the course, which is in view of the course "History of Ukraine" for higher education in economics. Guidelines also contains themes and seminars plans, assignments for the first and second rating tests, questions and problems for independent and individual work of students, themes category and recommended books for the course in general, a typical test problem with discipline, the subject of individual tasks with the problem of "History of Ukraine in the names", frequently asked questions to prepare for the exam in the discipline.

It should be noted, that the history of Ukraine embodies the stages of the historical path of the Ukrainian people, who made a significant and unique contribution to the development and progress of European and world civilization, economics, forms of economic, material and spiritual culture of mankind. The historical evolution of Ukrainian society strongly suggests that the Ukrainian people for several centuries had its own national state, defended it fought for its revival and preservation. In present conditions of the new Ukrainian state great importance is the growth of interest in the country's history, the origins of the Ukrainian people, the formation of its statehood and use the best historical traditions and positive experience in the practical life of society as a whole and the individual. And this applies to virtually all industries, sectors and areas of social life - the economy, market reforms and political transformation, social transformation, spiritual and cultural processes and so on.

Note, that the "History of Ukraine" course is the basic normative discipline approved by the Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine, it is an integral part of humanitarian training students. This course aims to promote civic responsibility and national consciousness of future professionals - economists, managers, help students acquire deep and new knowledge, develop skills of independent unbiased analysis and evaluation of key historical events, and build their professional and social activities on a sustainable basis richest and yet dramatic historical experience of the Ukrainian people.

Deep and comprehensive study of the history of Ukraine is impossible without mastering documentary source base, educational and methodical literature, the results of research scientists, systematic materials appropriate encyclopedies, dictionaries, directories, reflecting the political, socio-economic, spiritual and cultural development of the Ukrainian people from ancient times to the present. Qualitative understanding, learning and development programs and course content will be an additional factor in the formation of the modern young man - a specialist of the business, a mature citizen of his country, the civilized world's exchanges and cooperation processes, conscious of their own identity and national identity.

Program of the "history of ukraine" course.

Introduction. The origins of the Ukrainian people

History of Ukraine as a science and a subject. Subject and objectives of the course of history of Ukraine. History of Ukraine as a part of world history. Sources and historiography. Forms and methods of the course learning. Value capture the history of Ukraine for professional training and education of citizenship and patriotism, the development of historical consciousness.

Pre-Slavian phase state on the territory of Ukraine in ancient times. Evolution of farm primitive age. Tripilska culture and its traditions. The origins of the formation of agrarian society. The first public education in Ukraine: Cimmerians, Scythians, Sarmatians, Taurus. Ancient city-states of the Northern Black Sea and their importance for the economic development of the region. Eastern Slavs in the past. Tribal alliances, the first state associations eastern Slavs (VI-IX cent.). Features of the economy.

Theme 1. Kievskaya Rus, its elevation. Loss of state’s political unity

Political and social development of Kievskaya Rus (IX-XII c.). Establishment of Kievskaya Rus as a European feudal state. Sources and literature about the main periods in the history of Kievskaya Rus, the origin of the terms "Rus", "Ukraine". The role of the Kiev knyazes in the state building process. The introduction of Christianity. "Russkaya Pravda" - the first written code of laws of Kievskaya Rus.

The economic development of Kievskaya Rus. Formation agrarian society: the evolution of the economy and property relations. Economic policy princes. Categories population (smerdy, ryadovichy, zakupi, kholopy) and industries. The city and the craft. Internal and external relationships of Kievskaya Rus.

Ethno-cultural processes in the XII-XIII centuries. Feudal problem and its causes. Principality of Middle Dnieper: especially their political and economic development.

Galicia-Volyn state - the successor of Kievskaya Rus. Prominent figures in the history of Galicia-Volyn principality. The struggle for Ukrainian lands in the second half of the XIII - mid XIV century.

The value of Kievskaya Rus and Galicia-Volyn principality in the history of the Ukrainian people.

Theme 2. Ukrainian lands as the part of foreign countries (XIV-XVI century). Cossacks and its place in the socio-economic and political relations in Ukraine.

Entering the Ukrainian lands of Lithuania and other countries. Socio-political processes in Ukraine in the second half of the XIV-XVI centuries. Krevska Union (1385) between Lithuania and Poland, its consequences for Ukraine. Horodelska Union (1413). Changes in territorial-administrative structure of Ukrainian society. Background and reasons for the Lublinskaya Union (1569), its consequences for Ukraine. Lithuanian statutes.

Socio-economic situation in Ukraine in the middle of the XIV - early XVII century. The influence of external factors on the economic development of certain regions. Features of the Ukrainian lands in the growing crisis of the agrarian economy. The growth of feudal tenure, the early formation filvarks system, gradual enslavement of the peasants and the growth of feudal obligations. The social structure of the population. The peasants and nobles in middle XIV - the first half of the XVI century. "Charter on dies" (1557) and its impact on the development of commodity-money relations. The development of trade. Cities. Polonization processes of the Ukrainian gentry and social conflict in society in the second half of the XIV-XVII centuries.

The position of the Orthodox Church. Reform movement in Ukraine. Brestskaya Union (1596) and its consequences. The role of fraternities and sister schools (Ostrog, Lviv). Formation of Kiev-Mogyla College. Petro Mogyla.

Features of the Ukrainian people. Middle Dnieper - territorial center of Ukrainian nationalism and ethno-political life of Ukraine.

Genesis of the Ukrainian Cossacks and its historical role: predictors, sources, major groups and functions of the Ukrainian Cossacks, territory, population, employment, life and customs. Zaporizhzhska Sich - basic organizational and military and political force in the struggle for statehood, national, social and religious liberation of the Ukrainian people. Military-political system and the state as. Economic development of Sich. Cossack and peasant uprising early seventeenth century. Activity of P.Sahaydachny. Fighting against the Crimean Tatar aggression.