Monographs

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 …

The book contains unique diaries and memoirs of one of the most interesting Ukrainian politicians of the twentieth century, Peter Shelest, and also documents and materials about his life and work. The authors tended to create an objective view, a realistic portrait of Peter Shelest as a person and leader. The publication also contains an interview with those who had known Peter Shelest or worked with him.

This is the first in Ukraine encyclopaedia, intended to create a comprehensive and thorough presentation on the state of modern political science, its categorical apparatus, on the conventional and alternative theories and approaches. Readers have the opportunity to become acquainted with the ideas of the greatest representatives of political thought, to understand the place and role of the prominent players in the political arena, deeply comprehend the current political trends. The authors of the articles are the experts from Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Canada, and the United States.

On the basis of a wide array of national and foreign scientific sources, analysis of modern political realities, it is considered one of the important problems of political science – the problem of the political regime and democracy. The methodological context of the stated problems is disclosed, the classification of the forms of government, especially the political regime as authoritative order, is characterized. The theoretical basis and tendencies in the making democracy in Ukraine are given. The characteristics of the leading political regimes in Russia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Baltics, Central and Eastern and Western Europe are shown.

The monograph is devoted to the life, scientific and socio-political activities of the outstanding Ukrainian ethnographer, literary critic, folklorist, academician Mykola Sumtsov (1854-1922). The inheritance of the scientist is seen in the context of socio-cultural identity of the Ukrainians, the study which was actually devoted to all scientific activities of the professor from Kharkov.

The collection presents extracts from the documents of modern Ukrainian political parties, in which their view for functioning of government, state institutions and civil society in Ukraine are displayed.

The proposed research work examines the development of Jewish political thought in Ukraine in historical retrospect of the last century, and examines the current trends of the Ukrainian Jewry’s social activities in the early twentieth century.

The monograph presents the Ukrainian society in the context of its subcultural differentiation and value variability ​​. The place and the role of socio-cultural identities (ethnic, regional, and professional, gender, religious and other) are analysed, taking into account prevailing value guidance and behavioural stereotypes in different segments of polarized society. The main emphasis is performed on understanding the risks and threats resulted by injured historical memory, antinomianism of political orientations and the diversification of social consciousness which is formed on this basis,