Valeriy Smoliy


Valeriy Smoliy is a Ukrainian academician, historian, and director of the NASU Institute of History of Ukraine.

Career

Smoliy was born on 1 January 1950 in the village of Avratyn, Volochysk Raion, Kamianets-Podilskyi Oblast.
In 1970, he graduated from the historical faculty of the Kamianets-Podilskyi State Pedagogic Institute. After that, Smoliy worked as a rural teacher in schools in Ternopil Oblast and as a teacher assistant at the Nizhyn Pedagogic Institute.
Since 1972, Smoliy has worked at the NASU Institute of History of Ukraine. In 1975 he defended his candidate thesis "Union of the right-bank Ukraine with Ukrainian lands within the Russian state" and in 1985 his doctorate thesis "Social consciousness of Ukrainian national movements participants ". Since 1986, Smoliy has been heading one of the departments of the institute. In 1991, he was elected deputy director of the institute. In 1992, he was admitted to the National [Academy of Sciences of Ukraine] as a corresponding member.
Since 1993, Smoliy has been a director of the NASU Institute of History of Ukraine. In 1995, he became a full member, an academician, of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
In 1997–1999, Smoliy served as a Vice-Prime Minister on humanitarian issues in the government of Valeriy Pustovoitenko.

Works

  • 2011 — Petro Doroshenko. Political portrait.
  • 2004 — My Ukraine
  • 2003 — Ukraine. Progress of history
  • 2002 — Bohdan Khmelnytskyi: A biographic essay
  • 2002 — Ukraine of the 20th century
  • 1999 — The Ukrainian national revolution of the mid-17th century: problems, searches, decisions
  • 1997 — The idea of Ukrainian statehood in the 17th-18th centuries: problems of formation, evolution, realization
  • 1994 — History in biographies
  • 1993 — Bohdan Khmelnytskyi: A social and political portrait
  • 1993 — Right-bank Ukraine in the second half of the 17th-18th centuries: problem of state creation
  • 1992 — In search of new understanding of the 17th-century liberation war of the Ukrainian people
  • 1991 — How and when started the Ukrainian nation started to form
  • 1986 — Formation of social consciousness of the people masses of Ukraine during the class struggle . — К., 1986.
  • 1978 — The Union of right-bank Ukraine with Russia