УКРАЇНСЬКЕ КОЗАЦТВО ЯК НОСІЙ НОВИХ ЯКОСТЕЙ (РИС) ЦИВІЛІЗАЦІЙНОЇ ІДЕНТИЧНОСТІ
UKRAINIAN COSSACKS AS A CARRIER OF NEW QUALITIES (PICTURE) OF CIVILIZATION IDENTITY

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to Cossacks as an extraordinary phenomenon in European history. Its peculiarity is that it became a separate social class with certain rights and had its own territory, independent of the state administration. The relevance of this new social force was caused primarily by the strengthening of social, economic and religious coercion of broad sections of the population. The question of archification, barbarism and civilization is raised as a social and cultural process through which it passed establishment of Cossack identity realizes the novelty of the study. The article uses the descriptive and comparative methods. Conclusions. It is emphasized that the issue of national self-assertion in the 17th century passed into the hands of the Cossacks. It was the Cossacks who had to take over the baton of the former Ukrainian “classocracy”, which for a long period was in a state of decay and destruction. The Cossacks turned out to be capable of directing the manifestations of the protest movement of different classes in the direction of the long national liberation war against Polish rule, which led to the formation of an independent Ukrainian state – Hetmanship.

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