title: NEW UKRAINE vs NOVORUSSIA: MYTHS AND REALITIES OF GEOPOLITICAL CHANGES DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE XVIIIth – AT THE END OF THE XIXth CENTURY
abstract: Summary. The aim of the research is to reconstruct the peculiarities of geopolitical changes, which took place on the territory of southern Ukraine during the second part of the XVIIIth – the end of the XIXth century. The research methodology is based on the principles of scientism, historical methods, verification, author’s objectiveness, the frontier theory, a human dimension, regionalism, and also on the use of general scientific (analysis, synthesis, generalization) and special-historical (h
journal: Східноєвропейський історичний вісник