Civilization identity of Ukraine: history and modernity
Authors:   Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Rafalskyi Oleh Oleksiyovych , Kalakura Oleh Yaroslavovych , Kalakura Yaroslav Stepanovych , Yurii Mykhailo Fedorovych 
Published: May 2022

In the monograph the authors examines the phenomenon of Ukrainian civilizational identity, its origins, formation and current state in the context of humanitarian interdisciplinarity, of a combination of historical, philosophical, political, sociological and cultural methods of cognition, from the standpoint of civilizational, anthropological and socio-cultural approaches. Authors clarify the theoretical and methodological foundations of the essence of civilizational identity, its structure: ethnic, national, cultural, religious, political, civic, European and other components, the connection of civilizational identity with mentality and globality in the dynamics of historical progress and transformations, starting from the Middle Ages, the Kyiv Rus' state, the Renaissance, Modernism and ending with Postmodernism, Shows the historical mission of the Ukrainian Cossacks as the bearer of new qualities of national identity, Traces the civilizational self-determination of Ukrainian identity at the turn of the XIX–XX centuries, the role of consciousness, social psychology and the national idea in the transformation of identity, highlights the causes of the crisis and the split of identity in the conditions of totalitarianism, its devastating consequences for the identification process of Ukrainians in general. The central place is given to the study of the specifics of the civilizational identity of independent Ukraine, the role of its components – ethnic, religious, national, civic and Euroidentity, revealed the impact of interethnic relations, democratization, digitalization and globalization of the modern world, Russia's aggressive policy on identification processes. Ways of preserving Ukrainian identity in a foreign environment, the role of foreign Ukrainians in the formation of civilizational identity are highlighted. A number of proposals for further study of the problem, the role of the state and civil society in intensifying the identification process in modern Ukraine and its prospects. The monograph focuses on the study of the specifics of the civilizational identity of independent Ukraine, the role of its components – ethnic, religious, national, civic and European, reveals the influence of interethnic relations, democratization of society, digitalization and globalization of the modern world, Russia's aggressive policy on identification processes. Highlights the ways of preserving Ukrainian identity in a foreign environment, the role of foreign Ukrainians in the formation of civilizational identity. Contains a number of proposals for further study of the problem, the role of the state and civil society in intensifying the identification process in modern Ukraine and its prospects. Designed for scientists, teachers of history, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, social psychology, political science, ethnology, teachers, graduate students and students, all who are interested in Ukrainian history, the methodology of its civilizational, anthropological and sociocultural knowledge.