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On April 4, 2017 Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University hosted discussion “How to Write Your Own History for Neighbors”. The reason to conduct the discussion, organized by Polish Institute in Kyiv, was publication of the book “Poland. Outline of History”. The Polish side was represented by chief editor of the book and author of the chapter dedicated to recovery of Polish statehood in 1918 - 1939, Prof. Włodzimierz Mędrzecki (Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences), co-chairman of the Polish-Ukrainian Commission for the improvement of school textbooks on history and geography and Prof. Piotr Kroll (Institute of History of the University of Warsaw), member of the Polish-Ukrainian Commission for the improvement of school textbooks on history and geography. Ukrainian side was represented by Prof. Leonid Zashkilniak, Head of Department of History of Central and Eastern Europe of Ivan Franko Lviv National University and Dr. Iegor Vradii, “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies.

In addition to presenters and reviewers of the book, the discussion was attended by known Ukrainian historians including Prof. Ivan Patryliak, Dean of the Faculty of History of Kyiv National University, Prof. Vasyl Ulianovsky, Prof. Igor Liushyn (both from Kyiv National University), students, postgraduates and journalists.

The discussion was moderated by Prof. Yuri Shapoval (I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine).

Presenting the book, its chief editor stressed that this book is not an attempt to impose their views to Ukrainian readers, but an attempt to show how Polish researchers look at their history, which topics are important for Polish society.