Volodymyr Potulnytskyi

Volodymyr Potulnytskyip has made contributions on the theoretical and historical aspects of the influences of the dominant nations (Germany, Russia, Poland) on the development of Ukrainian historical and political thought in the 18th-20th centuries. He was the first scholar in the post-soviet space to solve the problems of integrating country's own version of the past in global and European history with shedding a new light on the problems of Russo — Ukrainian, Polish — Ukrainian, German — Ukrainian and Jewish — Ukrainian Relations.

From 1999 till 2002 was the professor of the Chair of Medieval Ukrainian History and Special Historical Disciples in the University of Lviv where he received the rank of full professor in 2002. From 1992 Potulnytskyi is working as Leading Research Fellow of the Department of Foreign Sources, M. Hruschevskyi Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Volodymyr Potulnytskyi (Ukrainian: Володимир Потульницький; birth July 6, 1958, Lviv) is a Ukrainian historian who specializes in European medieval history, Ukrainian political science, intellectual history, historiosophy and historiography of Eastern Europe.

He has worked in the field of diplomatic history, and, incorporating in his last monograph the noval archival materials from Ukraine, Switzerland, USA, etc. was able to provide a concrete picture of diplomatic intercourse between former Het'man of Ukraine Pavlo Skoropadskyi, and German, Japanese, British military and political officials in the crucial years of 1926—1943.