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Serhii Plokhii is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and the director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. His interests include the intellectual, cultural, and international history of Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on Ukraine.

Other articles where Mykhaylo Hrushevsky is discussed: Ukraine: World War I and the struggle for independence: …Ukraine and elected the historian Mykhaylo Hrushevsky as its head. The stated goal of the Central Rada was territorial autonomy for Ukraine and the transformation of Russia into a democratic, federative republic. Although the Provisional Government recognized Ukraine’s right to ...

Hrushevsky, Mykhailo [Hruševs′kyj, Myxaijlo], b. 29 September 1866 in Kholm, d. 25 November 1934 in Kislovodsk, North Caucasus krai, RSFSR. The most distinguished Ukrainian historian; principal organizer of Ukrainian scholorship, prominent civic and political leader, publicist, and writer; member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) from 1894, the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences ...

Professor Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934), the head of the Ukrainian Central Rada [revolutionary parliament founded in 1917 that directed the Ukrainian national movement — Ed.] and one of the most distinguished Ukrainian figures of the twentieth century, had a deep and abiding love for his "small motherland," the village of Sestrynivka in Kyiv Gubernia (today: Vinnytsia oblast).

considerably widened. This was the period of Mykhailo Hrushevsky, who for a long time became the real head of the Ukrainian nation. In 1917, at the outset of the revolution in Ukraine, his popularity was fabulous. He was quite naturally elected president of the central Rada, the constituent assembly of an Ukraine that was being born again.

His bibliography to 1904, compiled by Ivan O. Levytsky, is given in Naukovyi Zbirnyk prysviachenyi profesorovy Mykhailovy Hrushevs’komu uchenykamy i prykhyl’nykamy (A Scholarly Collection Dedicated to Professor Mykhailo Hrushevsky by his Students and Friends, Lviv 1906), and a bibliography of his works from 1905 to 1928 is given in ...

Mykhailo Hrushevsky. Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934) was Ukraine's greatest historian. His academic career began at Kyiv University, where in 1890 he graduated from the Department of History and Philology. Appointed professor of history at Lviv University in 1894, he became a leading figure in the Shevchenko Scientific Society and in the ...