Valeriy Smoliy
Valeriy Smoliy is a Ukrainian academician, historian, director of the NASU Institute of History of Ukraine.
Smoliy was born on 1 January 1950 in a village Avratyn, Volochysk Raion, Kamianets-Podilskyi Oblast.
In 1970 he graduate the historical faculty of the Kamianets-Podilskyi State Pedagogic Institute. After that Smoliy worked as a rural teacher in schools of Ternopil Oblast and a teacher assistant in the Nizhyn Pedagogic Institute.
Since 1972 Smoliy works 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 was heading one of departments of the institute. In 1991 he was elected a 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 is a director of the NASU Institute of History of Ukraine. In 1995 he became a full member, 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: Bibliographic essay
- 2002 — Ukraine of the 20th century
- 1999 — Ukrainian national revolution of mid 17th century: problems, searches, decisions
- 1997 — Ukrainian statehood idea of the 17th-18th centuries: problems of formation, evolution, realization
- 1994 — History in biographies
- 1993 — Bohdan Khmelnytskyi: social and political portraint
- 1993 — The right-bank Ukraine in second half of the 17th-18th centuries: problem of state creation
- 1992 — In search of new conception of the 17th century liberation war of Ukrainian people
- 1991 — How and when started to form the Ukrainian nation
- 1986 — Formation of social consciousness of the people masses of Ukraine during the class struggle . — К., 1986.
- 1978 — Union of the right-bank of Ukraine with Russia
