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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 which had restricted access.
Idzio's publications shine light on previously unknown or undocumented aspects of the activities of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.
Idzio is thought to be one of the experts in Ukrainian history of the 9th-13th century, early Slavic culture, 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 search the archives of Moscow for the huge amount of materials taken out of Ukraine dealing with aspects of Ukrainian history.
Other topics where he has produced monographs include such topics as "The Ukrainian diaspora in Russia", Ivan Franko, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Lesia Ukrainka, Hryhory Skovoroda, the development of religious thought in Ukraine.
Idzio has a Ukrainian nationalistic view on Ukrainian history. He states that he has come to the conclussion that the Russian people are originally a Finno-Ugric tribe, that
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