UKRAINIAN CHRONICLESOF THE SECOND HALF OF XVII -THE FIRST HALF OF XVIII CENT. ABOUT THE EVENTS OF THE WAR OF LIBARATION 1648-1654
The article considers the Ukrainian chronicles of the second half of the XVII - the ﬁ rst half of the XVIII centuries that not only provide large factual material about the events of the middle of the XVII century, but also allow to specify the characteristics of this period, to estimate the signiﬁ cance of the Ukrainian people’s struggling for their liberation, to show the inﬂ uence on the character of the Belarusian people’s struggle, to estimate such historical event as the reunion of Ukraine and Russia in 1654.