Польша – Крым: исторические параллели, контакты, перспективы сотрудничества

Abstract

The well known facts from the history and contemporary life of Poland and Crimea are not still connected together in the paradigm “Poland – Crimea” both in the public mentality and in the reflection of the scientific historiography. This article is an attempt to select – based on the methodology of the comparative historical analysis – coincidences, likeness, similarities and distinctive moments, contacts, points of intersections of the Polish and Crimean Tatar peoples their national interests, forms of their interaction. In some way it is a short prospect, a program, a thematic thesaurus of the issue and the latest researches that could be helpful in the future in the co- -operation between scholars. The main directions of such researches deal with both the historical past (processes of the ethno-genesis of the Polish and Crimean Tatar peoples; foreign and internal policy’s main objectives in the forming in the Middle Age states – Crimean Khanate and Polish Kingdom, that had their own periods of the Renaissance and of the Enlightenment; the existence of both nations from the end of the 18th century in the Russian Empire and their national-liberation movements), and the newest history – 20th–21st centuries. It is the ethnic group of the Polish-Lithuanian Tatars (related after their origin to the Crimean Tatars) which has played a role of a connecting link between the Poland and Crimea and cements this mutual cooperation. A long history of the cultural and political interaction between Poland and Crimea has continued until today, and with the reference of this interaction ( not only Crimea, but the whole Ukraine ) the most important ties of the contemporary European policy and the international solidarity are formed and found.