Viktor Idzio
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Viktor Sviatoslavovych Idzio (Ukrainian: Віктор Святославович Ідзьо) is a Ukrainian historian[1] and director of the Institute for Eastern Europe. Idzio was born in Ivano-Frankivsk on November 26, 1960.[citation needed]
In the past 15 years, he has published over 500 articles and 21 monographs dealing with controversial areas of Ukrainian history. Being based in Moscow during the fall of the Soviet Union allowed him to access materials in the archives of the KGB, GPU and other organisations that were formally closed or had restricted access.[citation needed]
Idzio's publications shine light on previously unknown or undocumented aspects of the activities of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.[citation needed]
Idzio is thought to be one of the experts in Ukrainian history of the 9th-13th century, early Slavic culture, and Celtic culture on Ukrainian territory, that the concept of the three brotherly Slavic tribes are a myth perpetrated by Soviet historians, that the Galician-Volynian State was also a myth of Soviet scholars which was much vaster than originally thought. Idzio searched the archives of Moscow for the huge amount of materials taken out of Ukraine dealing with aspects of Ukrainian history.[citation needed]
Other topics where he has produced monographs include such topics as "The Ukrainian diaspora in Russia", Ivan Franko, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Lesia Ukrainka, Hryhory Skovoroda, and the development of religious thought in Ukraine.[citation needed]
Idzio has a Ukrainian nationalistic view of Ukrainian history. He states that he has concluded that the Russian people are originally a Finno-Ugric tribe.[citation needed]
