Series:Курас Інститут Монографії

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The great civilizational outbreak on the cusp of XX-XXI centuries

Великий цивилизационный взрыв на рубеже XX-XXI веков

Author(s): Mykola Mykhalchenko / Language(s): Russian

In this book the essence and significance of the civilizational outbreak in Europe and Eurasia on the cusp of XX-XXI centuries is broken down, as well as its impact on the Ukraine, Russia and surrounding countries in being researched. Also given is the general-political prognosis on civilizational changes of the social development of the world and particular countries.

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Ukraine: the way to consolidate the society: a national report

Україна: шлях до консолідації суспільства: національна доповідь

Author(s): Not Specified Author / Language(s): Ukrainian

The report examines the issues of the consolidation of Ukrainian society in the situation of social and economic, internal and foreign policy crisis, the state of national solidarity is assessed, the causes and factors of confrontational phenomena in public relations are disclosed, the model of national solidarity and strategy for its achievement are developed.

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«Guillotine of Ukraine»: the people’s commissar Vsevolod Balitskyi and his fate

«Гильотина Украины»: нарком Всеволод Балицкий и его судьба

Author(s): Yuriy Ivanovich Shapoval,Vadim Zolotarev / Language(s): Russian

«Guillotine of Ukraine» - that’s what Vsevolod Balitskyi, the long-time chief of the General Procurator's Office and People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), was called by one of his contemporaries. // The authors of this book, basing on the unique documents and materials, in detail recreate his true role in the formation of the Bolshevik secret police and its leadership, his connections and influences, ambitions and personal traits, circumstances and versions of his death. The great attention is paid to V. Balitsky’s entourage, to whom, he worked with. // The authors managed to collect (often literally bit by bit) interesting and important information about V. Balitskyi, to process previously unavailable and very valuable archival sources. All of this allowed to prepare the most complete nowadays biography of one of the most notable figures of the communist special service. // The reader will be able to get acquainted for the first time with previously unpublished documents reflecting V Balitskyi’s activity.

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History of the Germans in Ukraine

Історія німців України

Author(s): Not Specified Author / Language(s): Ukrainian

The book was published at the initiative of the “International society of the Germans Ukraine – Wiedergeburt with the financial support of the Federal Ministry of the Interior of Germany through the charity «Development Society” on the results of the All-Ukrainian scientific conference “History of the Germen in Ukraine”, which was held on 3 March, 2017 in I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the NAS of Ukraine.

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Oleksandr Shumskyi. Life, fate, unknown documents: researches, archive materials

Олександр Шумський. Життя, доля, невідомі документи: дослідження, архівні матеріали

Author(s): Yuriy Ivanovich Shapoval / Language(s): Ukrainian

This is the first book, devoted to the life, activities and tragic fate of Oleksandr Shumskyi (1890-1946). The former socialist-revolutionist, later the leader of the “Borotbists” party, and then a member of the Bolshevik party, People's Commissar of Education in 1919 and 1924-1927, he remained a Ukrainian patriot, and often went “against the flow” of official policy. It is not uncommon for the communist regime to have made it, quite by the definition of his contemporaries, rather non-human: at first, O. Shumsky was sent for a ten-year exile, and then he was brutally murdered. The publication contains unique documents of the communist secret services, as well as the other archival documents never published. The book is intended for a wide range of readers.

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Civilizational failure of the Pereyaslav project: (Ukraine and Muscovy: the history of co-existence and hostility)

Цивілізаційний крах Переяславського проекту (Україна і Московія: історія співіснування та ворожнечі)

Author(s): Mykola Gorelov,Oleksandr Motsia,Oleg Rafalskiy / Language(s): Ukrainian

In 2014, 360 years have passed since the conclusion of the agreement between the tsarists and Cossack governments in Pereyaslav (now Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky), which was a turning point in subsequent historical processes that have long been observed in the mutual relations of the two peoples. This event also influenced the geopolitical situations both in the Eastern European region and throughout Europe. Today, it is possible to build different models for options, if there were the further fate of Ukraine and Russia in the event of changes in the policy of Bogdan Khmelnitsky and his successors after the mentioned action. But history does not know the conditional way, and everything happened as it happened. The peripetias in the relations that began in 1654, were reflected in the events, recently quite tragic, at the beginning of the XXI century.

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Halychyna in ethnopolitical dimension

Галичина в етнополітичному вимірі

Author(s): V. O. Kotygorenko,V. A. Voynalovič,O. Ya. Kalakura,L. L. Kovač,V. V. Kotsur,N. I. Kochan,O. O. Lyashenko,N. Yu. Makarenko,Yu. O. Nikolayets / Language(s): Ukrainian

The results of the analysis of ethno-political processes in Halychyna after World War II are represented in the book in the context of the mainstream of social changes under the Soviet Communist regime and in independent Ukraine. The link between political and ethnical factors is analysed on the bases of demographical shifts in the structure of population of Ivano-Frankivs’k, Lviv and Ternopil administrative regions, as well as socio-professional stratification of the local population, its linguistic, cultural and religious advantages, specific features of regional identity, electoral etc. social behaviour.

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Political identities in modern Ukraine: Poltava city community

Політичні ідентичності в сучасній Україні: міська громада Полтави

Author(s): Oksana Zorych / Language(s): Ukrainian

The brochure provides the generalized analysis of the main factors influencing the local processes of formation and transformation of political identities in Poltava city community. The content and specificity of identity policy in the city are determined, their constitutive role in structuring the political and social field of Poltava is proved

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The development and interaction of jewish communities in the european space

Розвиток і взаємодія єврейських громад на європейському просторі

Author(s): Not Specified Author / Language(s): Ukrainian

The scientific work deals with the problems of the development and interaction of Jewish communities in the European and post-soviet space at the end of the XX – the beginning of the XXI century. The research studies on the political, social and historical aspects of the Jewish community’s life in Ukraine in comparison with the communities of other European countries at the present stage.

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State and political government and national unity

Державне політичне правління і національна єдність

Author(s): O.M. Mayboroda / Language(s): Ukrainian

The analytical report examines the issues of unity consolidation of Ukrainian society by mechanisms and practices of state policy in such spheres as political and ideological principals of the social system, achievements of the systemic state government, ensuring the legal equality among the citizens of the country, social justice, unity of the social and cultural sphere while ensuring cultural pluralism.

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Challenges and integration perspectives of Ukraine in the context of russian aggression in Crimea and Donbass

Виклики й інтеграційні перспективи України в контексті російської агресії в Криму та Донбасі

Author(s): Marija Stepanivna Karmazina,Tetjana Anatolijivna Bevz,Natalia Rotar,Valentina Napadista / Language(s): Ukrainian

The analytical report is prepared by the results of the study on “Challenges and integration perspectives of Ukraine in the context of Russian aggression in Crimea and Donbass: analysis of assessments by foreign analysts and experts”. The opinions of analysts and experts from Western countries and CIS countries that are reflected on the pages of Internet resources regarding the specifics of the “Ukrainian crisis”, “Donbass break” and “sovereignty” of Crimea, their interpretations of current and potential threats / challenges to integration processes in Ukraine are analysed.

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Touch the history

Торкнутись історії

Author(s): Yuriy Ivanovich Shapoval / Language(s): Ukrainian

History remains the subject of heated discussion in Ukraine, of the most unexpected discoveries and in-deep reader’s interest. Yurii Shapoval is a connoisseur of its secrets, a researcher of archives, a publisher of unknown facts and documents, a scientist with an excellent worldwide reputation. And at the same time, he is a talented populariser of historical knowledge, the author of invariably interesting TV programs, documentaries, radio programs and newspaper stories.

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Integration perspectives of Ukraine in the context of russian aggression in Crimea and Donbass: analysis of approaches of parliamentary political forces

Інтеграційні перспективи України в контексті російської агресії в Криму та на Донбасі: аналіз підходів парламентських політичних сил

Author(s): Marija Stepanivna Karmazina,Tetjana Anatolijivna Bevz,Natalia Rotar / Language(s): Ukrainian

The monograph analyses the transformation and comparison of the approaches of parliamentary political forces to the problem of integration perspectives in Ukraine both at the domestic level and at the level of international structures during 2014 – mid 2018. The critical analysis of the activities of parliamentary political forces as the formers of the development strategies of the state and Ukrainian society is carried out.

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Religion, Politics and Ethnicity in Halychyna: from the Soviet Post-World War II Time to Present

Релігійний чинник етнополітичних процесів у Галичині: повоєнна радянська доба і сучасність

Author(s): Natalia Kochan,Viktor Vojnalovych / Language(s): Ukrainian

The book presents scholarly account of interaction between religion, ethnicity and politics in Ukrainian Halychyna region from Post-World War II Soviet time to present days in independent Ukraine, period that reveals variety of quite different patterns of interaction between religion and politics, religion and ethnicity.

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Regional political regimes in Ukraine: Lviv region (1990-2017)

Регіональні політичні режими в Україні: Львівщина (1990-2017 рр.)

Author(s): Vyacheslav Dmytrovych Yaremchuk / Language(s): Ukrainian

The research is devoted to the problem, which in the connection with the transformation of the political system in Ukraine, the decentralization processes, has gained political and scientific importance, - functioning of the political regime at the regional level. The object of research is the Lviv region, which is a self-sufficient and powerful participant in the political relations of modern Ukraine. The analysis revealed a broad base of empirical grounds and specificity of regional political regime formation, its main stages of transformation, stages of formal and informal political subjects as to create a favourable living environment in the region and building relationships with the central government of the state.

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Regional political regimes in Ukraine: the bases of formation, specificity of functioning, peculiarities of transformation

Регіональні політичні режими в Україні: підстави формування, специфіка функціонування, особливості трансформації

Author(s): Marija Stepanivna Karmazina,Tatyana Bevz,Natalia Rotar / Language(s): Ukrainian

The research is devoted to the study of the latest phenomenon in the conditions of functioning of the unitary Ukrainian statehood - the formation and transformation of regional political regimes, which are some of the most dangerous threats and challenges for Ukraine in the near future. The analysis was conducted with taking into account various factors - geographic, geopolitical, historical-cultural, socio-economic, legal, etc. - on an example of the study of all-Ukrainian tendencies and trends in the Dnipropetrovsk region and in the Chernivtsi region. With the involvement of a large amount of empirical data, the resource base, policy subjects at the regional levels, the peculiarities of their strategies in the development of horizontal and vertical communications in the regions and the state are analysed.

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Political parties in Ukraine. 2014-2017

Політичні партії в Україні. 2014-2017 рр

Author(s): Marija Stepanivna Karmazina / Language(s): Ukrainian

The research analyzes the peculiarities of the parties’ development in Ukraine in the period of 2014-2017. In particular, the mechanisms of their formation in the present condition are characterized, the process of multiple renaming is highlighted, and the specifics of political forces functioning outside of legal field are studied. The particular attention is given to the analysis of phenomenon of “own / affiliated”, “nominal”, regional, etc. parties, their financial and property status and features of the structures.

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Consolidation of Ukrainian society: ethnopolitical dimension

Консолідація українського суспільства: етнополітичний вимір

Author(s): Oleg Rafalskiy / Language(s): Ukrainian

The monograph is devoted to the study of the ethno-political components in the consolidation of Ukrainian society. The methodological and theoretical bases of the processes research of modern transformations with taking into account the peculiarities of modern ethnonational policy development and the practice of its implementation are revealed. The political analysis of domestic and foreign political influences on the ethnopolitical situation in Ukraine is carried out, the current directions of social and political development in modern conditions are determined. The publication is intended for scientists, who study the problems of ethnopolitics and socio-political processes in Ukraine. The book may be of interest to post-graduate students, students of higher educational institutions, everyone who seeks to assess current events in the political sphere and predict their development.

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Opportunism in making political decisions in the budget sphere during the financial and economic crisis of 2008-2009 in Ukraine

Опортунізм у прийнятті політичних рішень у бюджетній сфері у період фінансово-економічної кризи 2008-2009 рр.

Author(s): Margaryta Chabanna / Language(s): Ukrainian

The monograph presents a study of the manifestations of political opportunism of decision-makers in the formation of state expenditures for social protection and social security in the conditions of financial and economic crisis of 2008-2009 in Ukraine. The main attention is paid to the analysis of the political regime and political and socio-economic orientations of Ukrainian society, their role in the implementation of fiscal manipulation. Considering the political conditionality and economic feasibility of decisions aimed at improving social standards during the crisis, the peculiarities of the process of their development, adoption and implementation, as well as the electoral consequences in the post-crisis period are analyzed.

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The election process of 2019 in Ukraine in the light of public expectations

Виборчий процес 2019 року в Україні у світлі суспільних очікувань

Author(s): R. V. Balaban,N.V. Kononenko,S. Ju. Rymarenko,Halyna I. Zelenko,L. O. Kochubey,Tetjana Anatolijivna Bevz,T. M. Ljashenko,V. V. Bushans'kij,S. G. Breharya,Yuriy Shaigorodsky / Language(s): Ukrainian

The book analyses the course and results of the presidential and parliamentary elections in Ukraine in 2019. The pre-election status of Ukrainian society, its interests, requests for new politicians, and social needs are characterized. A comparative analysis of the candidates’ programs for the post of President of Ukraine and the status of people’s deputy is carried out. Innovative trends in the use of election technologies are evaluated. The probable prospects of Ukraine for the election results are outlined.

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