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Scientific notes of the I.F.Kuras Institute of politic and ethnic studies. Volume 35, Kiev, 2007 were published




Collection is a special issue of the “Scientific Notes” and is kept material of the international scientifically-practical conferences “Propaganda and “jewish question” in mass-media on the of territory of Ukraine occupied by nazis, 1941 – 1944″, which conduct an the Centre of Holocaust History Studies 21-22 february 2006. Conference is part of the exploratory project “Anti-semitic doctrines in mass-media in occupation period of Ukraine: areas wailled and civil german administrations of Transnistry (1941 – 1944)”, executed by the Centre.

The digest is specialized issue of “Scientific Notes” and is based contributions of scholars who participated at First Kuras Lectures which took place on the 15th-16th December 2005. Chapter 2 contains articles on topical issues of political theory and practice, foreign policy and historical political studies.

The digest is specialized issue of “Scientific Notes” and is based contributions of scholars who participated at First Kuras Lectures which took place on the 15th-16th December 2005. Chapter 1 contains articles devoted to the memory of academician I.F.Kuras and topical issues of ethnic politics.

The digest contains articles on topical issues of history and up-to-date problems of theory and practice of ethno-political, ethno-confessional and political relations in Ukraine.

The digest contains articles devoted to the problem of influence of military factor on Ukrainian state formation during the 18th — 20th centuries. Attention is paid to such landmarks in the history of the Ukrainian people as Hetman-Cossack period in the 17th century, state formation processes connected with the First and Second World Wars, national-democratic revolution in 1917-1920, modern processes of state development in Ukraine.

The digest contains articles on actual issues of theory and practice of political development of Ukraine, history and contemporary features of ethno-national and ethno-confessional relations on the Ukrainian lands, political problems of the world history, and foreign ethno-political and legal experience.

The digest contains articles on studies of the Ukrainian national self-organization reflected in Ukrainian political thought under conditions of absence of state; various aspects of formation, development and decline of political systems in the 20th century are researched through the prism of Ukrainian interest, in particular the state organisms, which involved Ukrainian nation in different periods of time. Special attention is paid to new methodological approaches to analysis of political sphere, and the presidency institute of modern Ukraine is examined on such basis.

The digest presents articles on topical problems of public society development in Ukraine. The focus of attention is correlation of norms, created in European tradition, and realities of the local political process.

The digest contains articles on topical issues of theory and practice of political development of Ukraine, history and modern features of ethno-national and ethno-confessional relations on the Ukrainian lands in contexts of foreign ethno-political and legal experiences.

The digest contains articles meaningfully grouped together by the research problem “Crimea in the 20th century: Ethno-Political Dimension”, scientific explorations of other problems of political science. It analyzes historiography aspects of historical, social-economical, political, national, cultural and spiritual development of ethnic communities of Crimea and other regions of Ukraine.

The digest contains articles on topical issues of theory and practice of political development of Ukraine, history and contemporary features of ethno-national and ethno-confessional relations on Ukrainian lands in the contexts of foreign ethno-political, legal experience.

The topics of the digest proposed comprises the issues belonging to the sphere of political development of Ukraine and ethno-political situation on its territory, including formation of the Ukrainian multi-ethnic nation, ethno-national policy of the government, solution of problems of immigrants and the peoples deported in the past, influence of ethno-confessional relations on political situation in the country.

The digest presents materials on general theoretic problems of political science, connected with development of public society in Ukraine and influence on this process of globalization tendencies. The digest contains the section “Studies of Young Scientists” which becomes a traditional one.

The digest contains scientific publicist articles, grouped together by a problem research “National Minorities in Ukraine in the 20th century: Regional Aspect”. It examines ethno-national structure of regions, certain features of social-economic, political, national, cultural and spiritual development of ethnic communities in Ukraine, their place and role in regional politics of the country.

The digest contains scientific articles which deal with problems of ethno-political history of Ukraine, analyzes various political systems, in which the Ukrainian society had to function during several centuries. The subject of analysis included Lithuanian-Polish period, Hetman Rule, times when Ukrainian lands were under the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires, period of the Ukrainian revolution of 1917-1920, Soviet period and modern development of Ukraine.

The digest contains scientific articles which deal with problems of history and culture of Ukrainian Jewish community, Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Separate articles are devoted to history of science, ethno-confessional relations, etc.