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РОССИЙСКАЯ АКАДЕМИЯ НАУК ИНСТИТУТ СЛАВЯНОВЕДЕНИЯ РУССКАЯ И УКРАИНСКАЯ ДИПЛОМАТИЯ В ЕВРАЗИИ: 50е годы XVII века Москва 2000  Работа осуществлена в рамках международного проекта ИНТАС (Open 971482) и при его финансовой поддержке Редколлегия: Л. Е. Семенова, чл. корр. РАН Б. Н. Флоря (ответственный редактор), И. Шварц Утверждено к печати Ученым советом Института славяноведения РАН Рецензенты: доктор исторических наук В. Н. Виноградов кандидат исторических наук С. Ф. Орешкова © Институт славяноведения РАН, 2000 ISBN 5767600000 © Авторы, 2000  Посвящаем памяти коллеги Льва Валентиновича Заборовского To the memory of our colleague Lev Zaborovsky 4 Introductory notes The present collection of papers was prepared in the framework of INTAS international project «Russian and Ukrainian Diplomacy in Eurasia: the Fifties of the 17th century», which pooled together researchers from Russia, Austria, Denmark and Sweden. The project’s objective is to coordinate efforts of the scholars from various countries in studying the international relations in Central Eurasia through the 5th decade of the 17th century with special focus on interrelation between international politics in various parts of the region and on genesis of Eurasian entity in the field of international relations. In the second half of the 5th decade of the 17th century the whole central part of Eurasia became a theater of large&scale international conflicts, which involved not only the countries of the region, but many other West European and Asian powers as well. The events of these years had a deep effect on the future fortunes of the countries and peoples involved. Intensive military clashes, social disturbances and sudden changes in political sovereignty over numerous territories accompanied the historical developments of that time. An important role in those was played by Russia and another newborn political entity, which took shape in the course of these clashes – i. e. Ukraine. The dramatic events of the 5th decade of the 17th c. have been attracting historians since long ago. However existing studies of these events are aggravated by historical myths, cliches and wrong approaches. For example, East&European (and especially Russian) political history was treated separately from the political process in the rest of Europe. International relations in Europe and in Asia were also studied in isolation from each other. On the other hand, through the Socialist period Russian historiography was dominated by obligatory ideological approaches, which made the balanced study of the problem hardly achievable, while the revision of this Marxist approach in post&Soviet historiography of the new independent states brought into life some nationalistic interpretations.