Abstract
The study examines the shaping of political and national identity in Ukraine in historical context, defines the factors influencing the process; the scope of the study covers the period from the beginning of the 20th century to the present days. The urgency of the study lies in the fact of existence of double identities in the collective and individual consciousness of Ukrainians at the beginning of the 20th century, which also complicates the problem of the choice of identities in modern Ukrainian society. The main range of problems requiring further research, debating points and poorly investigated problems, perspectives of studies in the area and ways of solving the existing social problems are identified. Along with the theoretical principles of studying the specifics of shaping of social consciousness, practical measures are taken to overcome the existing crisis in the public consciousness, complex solutions to the problem of shaping the collective historical memory of Ukrainians are proposed.
Highlights
У дослідженні розглянуто формування політичної та національної ідентичності в Україні в історичному дискурсі, визначено основні фактори, що впливали на цей процес; межі розвідки охоплюють період із початку ХХ ст. до сьогодення
The problem of shaping the national and political identity in a contemporary context gains ground due to the urgent needs of Ukrainian society − the need for national consolidation and the protection of the sovereignty and integrity of the state, given that the state- and nation-building completion processes are inextricably linked to the processes of shaping the national identity of Ukrainian citizen
Understanding the specifics of the shaping of national and political identity on Ukrainian lands is impossible without historical discourse, which under this research study covers the period from the beginning of the 20th century
Summary
Understanding the specifics of the shaping of national and political identity on Ukrainian lands is impossible without historical discourse, which under this research study covers the period from the beginning of the 20th century. The conditions for the shaping of national and political Ukrainian identity at the beginning of the 20th century made the development of identification factors more complicated and led to the existence of several parallel identities in the collective and individual consciousness of Ukrainians, combining the imperial («Great Russian») − political and Ukrainian − ethnic ones. 1920s and early 1930s (Vermenych, 2017) The study of this issue is a continuation of the discussion from the 1990’s in order to determine the nature of the Ukrainization policy pursued by the Soviet regime, and will allow to give meaning to the processes of shaping the Ukrainian political nation at the new methodological level. The mentioned measures «fully meet the demand for demonopolization and democratization of the memory space as a global feature of the present times» (Golubchyk, 2014), directly affecting the shaping of national and political consciousness as well − both individual and collective ones
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