Monographs

The book describes the theoretical and methodological instruments of studying ethno-political processes in Ukraine and their regional specificity. The research results of historical conditions, political, economic, social, demographic, cultural, religious and other aspects of ethno-political regionalization of social space in Ukraine are presented. The conclusions about the tendency of modern ethno-political dynamics in Ukrainian society, its regional segments and ethno-political role of public management in the optimization of ethno-national relations and the national civil consolidation of political, poly-ethnic, poly-confessional, poly-cultural masses of the population are reasoned.

In this tutorial the theoretical and practical problems of formations and development of political institutions in modern Ukraine are presented, the peculiarity of political process in Ukraine in the conditions of state independence is characterized. The certain topics focus on the issues of theory and practice of Ukrainian multiparty political system, political elitism and leadership as important actors and institutions of the political process in Ukraine.

Culture problems of interpersonal and intergroup relations are fundamental to every society. In Ukraine, they have acquired special significance due to «disunity” cultural sphere, differently directed political orientations, the conflict interpretations in the system of historical thinking. The authors of the book consider its main objective in filling perceptible gaps in the theoretically-methodological and instrumentally-educational comprehension of ethno-cultural parameters of multiculturalism and in the conceptualization of the term “ethno-political culture”, its inclusion in various discursive practices.

The monograph is devoted to the theoretical, methodological and applied aspects of political and authoritative, information and communication processes. On the scrutiny basis of scientific approaches, theoretical and methodological principles of political communication and extensive empirical material from the area of modern Ukrainian politics, the conceptual model for the analysis of information interaction (interactions) in today’s large Ukrainian city is developed and substantiated. In the work, the category “political interaction” is analysed and its heuristic potential is studied for understanding and explanation of modern political processes.

The book reproduces a panoramic picture of the events of breathtaking 1917 year in Russia and Ukraine. On the bases of archival materials, the press of those days, historiographical sources, the analysis of actual and hypothetical alternatives of the socio-political development of Ukraine is realized; ideological doctrines, social base and a regional influence of political forces that represented each of these alternatives are examined, the place and role of certain political forces and parties in the process of defending one or the other alternative are found out, the extent of their maturity and ability to lead the political processes is …

In the monograph, on the basis of the program documents analysis of Ukrainian political parties, scientific and journalistic heritage of the iconic figures of the Ukrainian national movement, other sources, the idea evolution of the national self-determination in the Ukrainian social and political thought is examined. In the context of the Ukrainian-Russian relations, the author traces the transformation of the autonomist-federalist and independence movement in the political thought of the Dnieper Ukraine during the nineteenth – first quarter of the twentieth century.

The 8th volume deals with one of the most tragic pages in the history of the Ukrainians, Poles – implementation of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs organs in 1937-1938 operating order PCIA USSR №00485. This repressive – punitive operation was one of the mass one in the time of “The large terror” 1937-1938.

The book deals with actual problems of Ukrainian-Russian relations in the period of cardinal and conceptual “rebooting” approach of both countries to interstate relations.

The collective monograph is devoted to the analysis of ideological and theoretical sphere of modern Ukrainian politics. The materials are united by the idea of developing the regulatory and real political practices models of modern Ukraine, which are developed and realized in the situation of value split of Ukraine’s population in the lines of European / Eurasian foreign policy orientation and the traditionalist / modernist course of internal policy.

In the collection of scientific works, the most actual problems of modern political science are cleared up, the national researchers’ spectrum of scientific studies are represented.

In the monograph, the research into the phenomenon of corruption in political science, philosophical, historical, legal and other aspects, which provides an interdisciplinary approach, is realized. Systemic and structural analysis of the phenomenon of corruption in Ukraine is carried out, but a systematic approach is leading of all methodological approaches. The task of uniting the theory and practice in the anti-corruption drive is realized.

The proposed work is a collection of analytical reports of I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on a range of actual problems of social and political development of Ukraine.

In the new book the author clarifies the process of the higher and local state authorities formation in Ukraine in the days of the Ukrainian National Republic (in the times of the Central Rada and Directory) and the West Ukrainian National Republic (ZUNR) in the context of complex process of national state formation in the turbulent 1917 – 1920 years. Achievements and failures of the state formation are analyzed, in particular, the legislative base, principles of formation and activity of the higher legislative and executive powers of the first and the second UNR and ZUNR, the central and local state …

In the monograph, the political forces which became the mainstay of the Ukrainian state of the hetman P.Skoropadskyi are defined. On the bases of the wide range of the sources, ideological and organizational prerequisites of Hetman coup d’état April 29, 1918 are examined; the role of political parties in this process, their participation in the formation of a hetmanate governments are highlighted, policy basis and guidelines for action of governmental parties – the All-Ukrainian Union of landed proprietors, Protofis, cadets are discovered. In the appendix, the biographical data of cabinet ministers is given.

The first volume of “The history of the Government Service in Ukraine” analyses a wide range of problems related to the state formation, political and administrative system, organizing state administration and government service and to the government employees’ activities. Authors begin their study with the analysis of relations between ancient states and societies in Ukraine and complete it with the characteristic of state formation process in the West Ukrainian National Republic. All forms and types (national, imperial, occupation) administrative activity on Ukrainian lands are analyzed. The fundamental research of the government service history in Ukraine is prepared as a part …

The book is published within the framework of scientific and publishing program of the Institute of critics, under the auspices of the Ukrainian Scientific Institute of Harvard University.

The expert analytical report is done in conformity with the Governmental plan of actions over financial crisis in Ukraine and devoted to the system analysis of the banking system situation of Ukraine, the development directions of its reforming. The authors of the report are well – known scientists and experts in the field of banks and the finance, jurisprudence, history, sociology, economic security and the government administration.

A series of editions introduces the history, the state traditions, the nature, culture and life of the Ukrainian people. The rich in content information, unique documentary photographs and bright design make a series universal and interesting to any reader.

The new facts about publishing of the Kiev University, which were made on the basis of the unexplored documents in the Institute of manuscripts of The Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, archival funds of the Central State historical archive of Ukraine, the State archive of Kiev, the State archive of the Kiev region were put into scientific circulation.

In the textbook, the theory and development of a political science from an antiquity to the present, the main concepts of applied political science is examined, the process of political systems’ transformation in the CIS countries, Baltic, Central and the Eastern Europe states, and also geopolitical problems in the modern world are clarified. In the textbook, scientific elaborations of I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, where the author works, are used widely.