Historical Demography in Ukraine: From “Political Arithmetic” to Non-Political History

Abstract

The article is an introduction to the state of development of historical demographic studies in Ukrainian historiography. The authors try to explain why, at a time when historical demography was the mainstream in world historiography, it made practically no progress in Soviet Ukraine, and its achievements were left unused in historians’ research. The reasons for interest in historical demography today, and its influence on the development of historical anthropological research, are also analyzed. The authors describe the main research centers, examine the subjects of study and discuss the prospects for development.

Keywords

• Historical demography in Ukraine
• centers for historical demographic studies
• Ukraine
• Ukrainian historiography
• population