Mykhailo Hrushevsky as Founder and Editor of Periodicals for the Peasantry

This article investigates the content, ideological foundations, and public reception of the periodicals Selo and Zasiv, edited by Mykhailo Hrushevsky. It demonstrates that thanks to a well-considered editorial policy, these newspapers gained considerable popularity among the broader populace. The article puts the emphasis on the fact that the historian’s publishing initiatives, oriented toward a peasant readership, became an important component of the national socio-political movement in the Ukrainian territories of the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century

Ideology · Peasant · Popularity · Publishing · Ukrainian · Military, Security, and Education Studies · Social and Behavioral Studies · Soviet and Russian History