Editing History of Ukraine (section)

===Canadian historiography on Ukraine===
In Soviet Ukraine, twentieth-century historians were strictly limited in the range of models and topics they could cover, with Moscow insisting on an official [[Marxism|Marxist]] approach. However, émigré [[Ukrainians in Canada]] developed an independent scholarship that ignored Marxism, and shared the Western tendencies in historiography.<ref>Roman Senkus, "Ukrainian Studies in Canada Since the 1950s: An Introduction." ''East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies'' 5.1 (2018): 3–7.</ref> [[George W. Simpson]] and [[Orest Subtelny]] were leaders promoting Ukrainian studies in Canadian academe.<ref>Bohdan Krawchenko, "Ukrainian studies in Canada." ''Nationalities Papers'' 6#1 (1978): 26–43.</ref> The lack of independence in Ukraine meant that traditional historiographical emphases on diplomacy and politics were handicapped. The flourishing of social history after 1960 opened many new approaches for researchers in Canada; Subtelny used the [[Modernization theory|modernization]] model. Later historiographical trends were quickly adapted to the Ukrainian evidence, with special focus on Ukrainian nationalism. The new cultural history, [[Postcolonialism|post-colonial studies]], and the "[[linguistic turn]]" augmenting, if not replacing [[social history]], allowed for multiple angles of approach. By 1991, historians in Canada had freely explored a wide range of approaches regarding the emergence of a [[national identity]]. After independence, a high priority in Canada was assisting in the freeing of Ukrainian scholarship from Soviet-Marxist orthodoxy—which downplayed Ukrainian nationalism and insisted that true Ukrainians were always trying to reunite with Russia. Independence from Moscow meant freedom from an orthodoxy that was never well suited to Ukrainian developments. Scholars in Ukraine welcomed the "national paradigm" that Canadian historians had helped develop. Since 1991, the study of Ukrainian [[nation-building]] became an increasingly global and collaborative enterprise, with scholars from Ukraine studying and working in Canada, and with conferences on related topics attracting scholars from around the world.<ref>Serhy Yekelchyk, "Studying the Blueprint for a Nation: Canadian Historiography of Modern Ukraine," ''East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies'' (2018) 5#1 pp. 115–137. [https://www.ewjus.com/index.php/ewjus/article/view/373/pdf online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228191910/https://www.ewjus.com/index.php/ewjus/article/view/373/pdf |date=28 February 2019 }}</ref>