CONTENTS
 
Introduction...........'............... 5
 
Chapter I 
HISTORIOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SELF-ORGANIZATION. ............ 19 

Problems and tasks of historiosophy ...................................... 19 
Marxism and "conspiracy theory" .............................................22 
Historiosophy and self-organization principles....................... 28 
Self-organization mechanism................................................... 33 
Subject of the history of Ukraine............................................... 39 
Civilization................................................................................... 48 
History challenge........................................................................ 52 
Universal state............................................................................ 56 
 

Chapter II 
SOURCES OF EMPIRE THINKING ....................................... 60 
 

Watershed.................................................................................. 62 
Moscow - the Third Rome......................................................... 71 
Sacred Rus: russification revenge........................................... 81 
Bolshevik "renaissance" of the Great Statehood................... 89 
Empire self-consciousness crisis............................................ 99 

Chapter III 
UKRAINE: BETWEEN EAST AND WEST ......................... 108 
 

Self-determination coordinates............................................. 109 
Basic sociocultural law .......................................................... 114 
Boundary ................................................................................. 118 
"Non-historical" nation............................................................ 126 
Historical continuity factor...................................................... 132 
Thesis: westernization ........................................................... 140 
Antithesis: revolution and ruin................................................ 154 
Crisis of the national accord ideal......................................... 168 
 

Chapter IV 
NATIONAL REVIVAL POTENTIAL........................... 179 
 

Empire ......................................................................... 180 
Empire break-up.......................................................... 183 
Destiny of Ukraine........................................................ 186 
The Ukrainian-Russian consensus foundations.........190 
She'll be robbed and woken up................................... 198 
Immature independence ..............................................202 
Dramatism of the situation ..........................................208 
 

Chapter V 
ATAMANHOOD. ........................................................ 213 
 

Irony of history............................................................. 213 
The quiet Kuban is breaking her banks................... 214 
Way to Labour Congress........................................... 218 
Halych-Ukrainian frustration .......................................223 
Bolshevik-style, atamanhood.....................................229 
Disorder or the choice of orientation ....................... 232 
Not to Ukraine, but to her torturer ..............................238 
Where is your brother Abel?..................................... 244 
Turmoil........................................................................ 250 
Final in the blues ........................................................254 
 

Chapter VI 
BOLSHEVISM PHENOMENON ............................ 259 
 

Split............................................................................ 260 
Revolution................................................................. 266 
Bolshevism............................................................... 271 
Party.......................................................................... 275 
Union of workers and peasants............................. 279 
Bolshevism as a phenomenon ..............................284 
Who introduced "the military communism" ..........289 
Stalin's greatcoat for Lenin.................................... 297 
 

 
Chapter VII 
TOTALITARIAN PSEUDOCOLLECTIVE REGIME ... 305


Stages............................................................. 305 
Basic features.................................................. 312 
Alienation of power......................................... 321 
"Social glue" of ideology................................. 327 
Totalitarian personality.................................... 337 
Sources of pseudocollectivity.......................... 341 
Marginalization factor...................................... 347 
Personality factor............................................ 352 
Ideological sources.......................................... 360 


Chapter VIII 
REPRESSIVE PRACTICE OF TOTALITARIANISM WITH 
RESPECT TO UKRAINE ............ 364 


Stalinism.......................................................... 364 
Terror "logics" and mechanism ........................374 
State machinery purge..................................... 381 
Destruction of army structures........................ 388 
Ruining youth organizations............................. 393 
Reprisals against intellectuals.......................... 397 
Burden of Stalin's heritage.............................. 402 


Chapter IX 
USSR BREAK-UP: COMPREHENSION 
OF MOTIVE FORCES .............. 407 


Final................................................................. 407 
Surrender......................................................... 411 
Globalism......................................................... 415 
Mondialists and autochthonics......................... 419 
Way to putsch................................................. 427 
Influence agents............................................... 433 
Alternatives..................................................... 439 
Messiahnism .................................................... 445 
Nationalism phantom .......................................453 
The king is dead - long live the king! ..............459 
 
Chapter X 
PAYMENT FOR INDEPENDENCE ..... 464


Economic crisis................................................ 466 
Social and class changes................................. 470 
Functional character of the power structures ..474 
Aggravation of the crisis................................. 479 
Social consequences........................................ 482 
Power crisis..................................................... 485 
Political leadership........................................... 488 
Image of the enemy .........................................492 
Power deficit................................................... 495 
Liberalization................................................... 500 

Chapter XI
1994 ELECTION: 
COMPREHENSION OF INDEPENDENCE............... 507


Hopes.............................................................. 507 
Principal idea................................................... 511 
We have what we have.................................... 515 
The left are coming back................................. 520 
Bureaucracy..................................................... 525 
Integration....................................................... 529 
Charisma.......................................................... 532 
Leader of the nation........................................ 536 
Comprehension................................................ 542 


Chapter XII 
PRINCIPAL COURSE: EUROPEISATION ................ 552 


Echelons of civilization.................................... 554 
Echelons of communism................................... 558 
Crisis factors................................................... 562 
Empire cycle stages......................................... 566 
Echo cycle........................................................ 571 
 Maniheimism pendulum ....................................576 
Antiprogramme................................................ 579 
Conservatism renaissance................................ 584 
Ideological essence 
of the statehood doctrine................................ 586 
The Third Track ............................................... 590 
Warnings and forecasts................................... 594 
 

 
Chapter XIII 
POLITICAL STRATEGY OF UKRAINE . . 599 


Strategy elements............................................ 599 
Foundations..................................................... 601 
General civilizing tendencies............................ 604 
From post-totalitarianism to democracy ..........613 
Shaping the state power .................................623 
Chapter XIV OVERCOMING THE SPLIT .......... 635 
Confrontation...................................................636 
Self-consciousness ..........................................642 
Changes........................................................... 650 
Swinging the pendulum.................................... 655 
Establishing consensus.................................... 660 
Choice.............................................................. 666 
Establishment phases....................................... 672 
Alternatives..................................................... 679 


Chapter XV 
ESTABLISHING THE NEW COURSE... 686 


Correction........................................................ 686 
Heritage........................................................... 691 
Ways of overcoming the crisis........................ 696 
State and political development ......................701 
National interests and political arrogance........ 707 
Priorities..........................................................710 
Western vector................................................ 712 
Vector CIS....................................................... 715
Changes and prospects ................................... 720
Constitutionalization of the nation-state ......... 726

PROSPECTIVE TARGETS 
(Instead of conclusions) .............. 739

NOTES.............................. 759



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