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Andreyev V. "Epoch theory" by Viktor Petrov: frustrated revolution of the Ukrainian historiography / V. Andreyev // Scriptorium nostrum. - 2015. - № 1-2. - С. 7-34

Viktor Platonovych Petrov (1894–1969) was one of the most prominent
Ukrainian intellectuals of his time – the distinguished scientist with encyclopedic
erudition (the historian, the ethnographer, the archaeologist, the literary scholar, the
linguist, the folklorist, thephilosopher), the organizer of scientific research, the public
figure and the writer of theneo-classical style, and the Soviet intelligence agent.
«Theory of epochs» is Petrov’s highest achievement as the intellectual and the
versatile scholar.The scientist have proposed the original concept of the ancient
history of Ukraine, it has beenprominent theoretical and practical contribution to the
Ukrainian historiography.His concept has been based on discrete, cyclical vision of
the historical process and related with the main trends of European historiosophical
thoughts 1920s – 1940s. The theory was in the contextof intellectual ideas of
M. Berdyaev, V. Velflin, N. Danilevsky, A. J. Toynbee, S. Freud, M. Foucault,
M. Khvylovy, D. Chyzhevsky, F. Schmitt, O. Spenglerand the existentialists. The
scientist developed a scheme of Ancient History of Ukraine («the prehistory of the
Ukrainian nation») and Ukrainianethnogenesis as part of European history, based on
the «Theory of epochs». His research opened a new path for the development of
national historical science and could lead to a «revolution» in Ukrainian
historiography. However, the scientist’s intellectual initiative was not accepted by his
contemporaries and nowadays it is remained outside of the main directions of
theoretical and practical research of historians. This article is devoted to themeaning
and genesis of Petrov’s «Theory of epochs».
Keywords: Victor Petrov, «Theory of epochs», Ukrainian ethnogenesis, discrete
and cyclical history.