Monographs

The book examines the system of political values ​​of the population in Ukraine, their structure, the regional specificity. The methodological and theoretical basis of their analysis and adjustments in the value-split Ukrainian society are disclosed. The attempts at political forecasting some of the transformation of value orientations in the course of European integration are accomplished.

Historical memory is conventional and fragile construct that builds up in the collision of political and corporate interests, ideological directives. The lack of the united, conceptual, symbolic scope ​​in Ukraine is now one of the most critical of those which support the state of the permanent identification crisis.

In the work, the historical and political analysis of the Ukrainian regional civilization way is carried out. The significant differences between Ukrainian and Russian regional civilizations, their ethnic components, national ideas and the future are shown.

The present textbook combines the key ways of development of PR in political sphere, beginning from its grounds, principles and ethical norms of political PR as well as the practice of PR in political sphere. There are researched such important questions as the instruments of political PR, media-planning, political advertisement, internet in political communication etc.

In the work of two famous social scientists, the historical and political, socio-philosophical analysis of our epoch is carried out. The political leaders’ role of the country at separate stages in the development of independent Ukraine is shown; the evaluation of activity of such conflicting political figures as L.Kravchuk, L.Kuchma, V.Jushchenko and V.Yanukovych is given. The critical research of political, economic and spiritual processes in Ukraine throughout last 25 years is carried out.

In the work of two famous social scientists, the historical and political, socio-philosophical analysis of our epoch is carried out. The political leaders’ role of the country at separate stages in the development of independent Ukraine is shown; the evaluation of activity of such conflicting political figures as L.Kravchuk, L.Kuchma, V.Jushchenko and V.Yanukovych is given. The critical research of political, economic and spiritual processes in Ukraine throughout last 25 years is carried out.

In the analytical report which was carried out on the basis of research results in Ukraine’s adaptation process to the transition of the world system from the unipolar to multipolar system, the theoretical and practical aspects of the problem, which is associated with the formulation of the new structure of the world system, were analysed. The general features of this structure are defined. It is proved that its formation is not the result of purposeful vital activity, but also is the struggle between different blocs and individual countries. This often leads to the deployment of the cut-throat competitive struggle and …

The monograph deals with the specifics of the Russian Empire policy, concerning national minorities of the Right-Bank Ukraine in the late XVIII – early XX century. The internal and external factors of the tsarist policy in the field of ethnicity are analysed, the activity of the state administration institutions and administrative control in the field of ethno-political region is examined, the basic principles of socio-economic, educational, church and religious policy of the Russian Empire and its impact on the ethno-demographic and ethno- social processes, the position of the Poles, Russians, Jews, Germans and Czechs in the region are traced

The study analyzes the process of formation and development of the Donbass settlement population structure, specifying the key factors that influenced its changes.

The work, which is brought to your attention, is an analytical reports’ collection of I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the NAS of Ukraine on a number of issues of social and political development in Ukraine.

In the monograph, the evolution of the term “revolution” in social and political thought: from astronomical conception to the political, as well as the “phenomenon” of the revolution as a kind of multiplicity that occurs at the intersection of different discourses (political, social, religious and scientific). Revolution is examined as a natural form of society’s development, which is caused by the same reasons, as evolution. An attempt was made to estimate the revolution and the idea of revolution in terms of the present with specific and historical conditions, in which the revolutionary events occurred and the idea and mode of …

In the scientific and analytical report, based on the prevailing understanding of category solidarity in the political science, the state of social solidarity in the Ukraine in her moral and psychological manifestations, such as human values ​​and trust, is analysed, the role of the most influential actors in the social solidarity of the country is evaluated, the perspectives for realizing the idea of ​​unified society in the Ukrainian state are examined.

Based on a wide amount of modern historical research sources; the analysis of real political processes, one of the main topics of political science – the nature, concepts and classification of political leadership at the national and regional aspects is presented in the tutorial. The theoretical and methodological problems of political leadership, the idea of leadership in the world of political thought, the formation of political leadership in modern Ukraine after independence are found out. The process of becoming political leaders in the CIS and Baltic, Central and Eastern Europe countries is given; the general regularities and special features in …

This book is the third one in the series of annual reports on topical issues of socio-economic, socio-political, cultural development of Ukraine that are planned by the National Academy of Science. The authors, on the basis of current theoretical concepts related to general tendencies in the evolution of national sovereignty under the condition of globalization, analyze the status and problematic aspects of the national sovereignty of Ukraine, the ways to strengthen it in accordance with the real possibilities of the country are given. It is about the filling of the national sovereignty concept with the new content, the introduction of …

The collection includes participants’ speeches of the international scientific-practical conference “The party system of modern Ukraine: Evolution, Trends and Prospects”, which cover a variety of problems in the theory and practice of political parties in Ukraine. In particular, the formation and development of the Ukrainian multiparty system, its functioning, the connection with the electoral system, the analysis of the participation of political forces in the electoral and political process, both at the national and regional level.

The reference book includes information materials about modern Ukrainian political parties (both active and those that ceased their existence) and their first leaders (founders), electoral coalitions, created on the eve of elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine III – VI convocations.

The monograph examines the phenomena of historical memory, its place and role in the system of social values as well as the mechanism of last update in the cognitive process and in identification practices. The attention is paid to the genesis of theories of collective memory at different stages and in different fields of scientific knowledge, the features of modern memory strategies, correlation of history and mnemohistory, collision of traditional and innovative discourses in understanding the connection between the past, present, and future. The monograph is intended for specialists – sociohumanists, students, everyone who is interested in the mastering and …

This monograph is devoted to the analysis of the political systems transformation in Central Asia in the post-Soviet period. Both, the mutually connecting factors, which are specific to the region and particularly of the each country’s development, are considered. The structures of authority, institutions of civil society, among which traditional forms of self-government continue to operate, are studied. Considering that the systemic transformation in Central Asia are fundamentally different from similar processes in Eastern European countries, the author compares the internal and external factors of transformation, variants for replacement of political elites, the possibility of transition to a new political …

The basis of this collection of scientific work, were the materials of the conference, which was held in Kiev in June 2011 The book is composed of works by scientists from Ukraine, Russia, Serbia and Moldova – historians, archaeologists, philosophers, linguists, theologians, dedicated to topical issues of history and current state of the Orthodoxy in the Slavic world, as well as the problems of maintenance and use of the Orthodoxy in the Slavic world, as well as the problems of maintenance and use of the Orthodoxy’s material heritage.The book is intended for researchers and everyone who is interested in the …