Alternative history in historical research
Journal Title: Наукові праці. Серія "Історія" - Year 2016, Vol 282, Issue 270
Abstract
Alternative history is connected with the traditional history as they have one subject – the past of mankind. For a more multi-dimensional, a true understanding of the past and the need to build alternative historical science. The beginning of the historical alternatives was expected, yet the Roman historian Titus Livy. A significant impact on the recognition of alternate history as a scientific direction has made the work of Nobel Prize winner I. Prigogine, «The End of uncertainty. Time, chaos and new laws of nature». French historian, a representative of the school of «Annals» by F. Braudel, in the framework of the concept of nonlinearity development examined the issues of interaction of a diversity of historical times. In Soviet historiography the problem of alternativeness of history, given the Marxist approach to the study of the history of society, did not develop properly. M. Gefter believed that the cate- gory of «alternative development» provides consistency and unity of the historical worldview. A study of the problem of chance in history involved A. Gurevich. Question the alternativeness of historical process were interested in, mainly historians, who were engaged in the study of meth- odological issues. E. Zhukov, I. Kowalski, P Volobuyev. Some interest in alternate history finds the famous Ukrainian historian N. Yakovenko, which examines two dimensions of history – social and anthropological. Thanks to the alternate history begin, radically changing the vector of scientific research. To history an important consequence of the General turn of scientific thinking is that of the historian becomes interested in the events that occurred not in themselves, but in the context of missed opportunities.
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Y. Kotlyar
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