Theoretical Aspects of the Analysis of the Possible Causes of Ukrainian Revolutions

Abstract

The study of the issues of revolution is of scientific interest in the context of changes in public consciousness and its influence on the speed of social processes. A comparative historical analysis of foreign and domestic scientific works showed that the use of the concept of «revolution» for different eras is ambiguous, and the explanations for the emergence and development of revolution are characterized by variability of concepts, which is caused both by differences in scientific approaches to the definition of key concepts, and subjective scientists' vision of the ultimate goal of research. The article presents a classification of the most recognized foreign theories in which the causes of the revolution are highlighted from various points of view of scientific knowledge. It is determined that the objective and subjective conditions for maintaining the revolutionary situation in Ukraine are changes in the system of relations in the social structure of society and the transformation of individual norms and rules to the action of a social elevator. It was emphasized that a change in the conditions of social interaction led to the development in society of an objective factorial relationship «social disorientation – social anomie – social cynicism – social madness», characterized by a tendency to repeat and narrow in time. It is proved that the cause of Ukrainian revolutions is the socio-psychological instability of society, manifested in the interconnection of objective conditions with relative inertia and changing objective factors with each electoral cycle, and the level of interaction of subjective conditions and factors determined the intensity of development of revolutionary processes.