International scientific review

Ukrainian historiography
, the selected topic had not been examined in detail. This gap is 
partially filled with works on the history of international relations, national and international 
security, propaganda and information wars, which, meanwhile, are dedicated mainly to the 
problems of the modern world; the period we are studying, unfortunately, is almost not represented 
in them (works of S.V. Venyansky, L.F. Gaidukov, B.M. Gonchar, T.Yu. Gorban, O.G. Ivchenko, 
A. Koppel, O.V. Krapivin, Yu.V. Krushinsky, I.F. Kuras, V.A. Lipkan, O.S. Parakhomchuk, V.M. 
Petrik, G.G. Pocheptsov, Yu.S. Skorokhod, S.S. Troyan, N.L. Yakovenko and so on). 
And it was only in early 2000 that the domestic historical science started searching in the 
direction we had chosen. Important international scientific conferences were held ("Ukraine – the 
problem of identity: man, economy, society"), Lviv, September 18 – 21, 2003 under the auspices of 
the Kenan Institute (USA), "The Image of the other in neighboring stories: myths, stereotypes, 
scientific interpretations", Kiev, Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of 
Sciences of Ukraine, December 15 – 16, 2005). In addition to the published conference materials, 
among which there were interesting and valuable articles by V.A. Smolia, G.V. Kasyanov, A.P. 
Tolochko, L.E. Gorizontov, L.A. Zashkolnyak, S.V. Kulchitsky, N.M. Yakovenko, O.A. Udod, 

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V.E. Golubko, M. Plaviuk, N.I. Ulyanov and others, the work by A.I. Gurzhiya, M.B. Parakhina 
("Ethnological centers of Ukraine in the 20s - early 30s of the 20th century". – Kiev, 2004) 
appeared which had a certain significance in the systematization of historical and ethnological 
knowledge, including in the historiography of the "image of the other" and the "image of the 
enemy". 
The overwhelming majority of Ukrainian researchers are predisposed to opinion of necessity to 
create a Ukrainian historical school of "Inshing" (from the Ukrainian word "inshy" – another – 
V.V.), with the aim of developing the direction of research of the "image of the enemy". This 
cohort of researchers should include O.M. Lozovaya, V.A. Pavlutskaya, A.A. Dolgopolov, L.V. 
Taran, M. Shevchenko, and others. We are convinced that their opinion deserves recognition and 
such a new science as imagology, will gain its development in Ukraine. Moreover, such a well-
known Ukrainian historian-orientalist, Y.G. Dashkevich investigated the problem of Ukrainian-
Armenian relations precisely within the framework of the imagological tradition ("Armenia and 
Ukraine" monograph – Lviv, 2001). However, as for the "Armenian problem" as such, it should be 
noted that it was not fundamental in Ukrainian historiography; to a large extent it is mainly about 
the emergence and development of Armenian settlements in Ukraine (works of V. Grigoryan). The 
international aspect of this problem is rarely found in the works of ancient historians and refers 
only to the earliest stages of the study of the emergence of the "Armenian issue". 
Today, the foreign policy of Great Britain and the United States of the late 19 – early 20 century 
is studied by O. B. Demin. His works highlight the period of the formation of British-American 
Atlanticism, as well as the process of forming the foundations of the foreign policy of Great Britain 
and the United States in relation to the Sublime Porte. In the development of this issue, a number of 
dissertation studies have emerged, in particular by V.V. Ischenko (Lugansk, 2006), V. Savenkov 
(Lugansk, 2005), A.V. Goncharenko (Lugansk, 2004), A.V. Korneev (Kharkiv, 2005), and others. 
Among them there are those where authors consider the time when the "Armenian problem" 
escalated and found its definite solution – these are, first of all, the works by M. S. Buryan ("The 
crisis of British colonial policy in Egypt and Sudan in the first third of the 20th century" – Moscow, 
1999, etc.), with which this author started studying the process of formation and implementation of 
Whitehall's policy in the Middle East in the second half of the 19th – first third of the 20th century, 
which, of course, influenced the US standpoint on the "Armenian problem". Important for our 
research material is also contained in dissertations on the problem of the Black Sea Straits, 
Palestine, etc. in international relations of the first quarter of the 20 century. 2005), M.V. Shiryaev 
(Lugansk, 2006) and other researchers. 
As a result, it can be said that Ukrainian scientists have made a certain contribution to the 
development of the problem of forming the image of the enemy in the foreign policy of the United 
States and Great Britain, and continue their research. Yet, there is no special work dedicated to the 
history of the formation of the "image of the enemy" in Anglo-American geopolitics during 
exacerbation of the Armenian problem in 1914-1923 in Russian historiography. 
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