HISTORY OF THE FORMATION AND TRADITIONS OF THE UKRAINIAN COSSACK STATE IN THE 16TH-17TH CENTURIES: INSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL CONTEXT
HISTORY OF THE FORMATION AND TRADITIONS OF THE UKRAINIAN COSSACK STATE IN THE 16TH-17TH CENTURIES: INSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL CONTEXT

Summary/Abstract: The creation of the Ukrainian Cossack state under the name of Zaporozhska Sich in the 17th century became an important stage in the national development of the Ukrainian people, the affirmation of the idea of independent existence of Ukrainianness. This paper examines the peculiarities of the formation of the Cossack nation and the Ukrainian Cossack state as socio-political, institutional-legal, military and spiritual phenomena. It was the appearance of the Cossacks that later became the basis for the formation of the Ukrainian Cossack state. The study analyzes the main principles of the functioning of the Ukrainian Cossack state: democracy, governmental worldview, love of freedom, brotherhood and chivalry. Particular attention is paid to the characteristics of Cossack law and the moral and ethical code of Ukrainian Cossacks. In the development of the Ukrainian Cossack state, Ukrainian national elite played the leading role and implemented the idea of Ukraine's independence in the process of struggle for national liberation. It can be stated that the Ukrainian national elite, formed and tested during the war of national liberation under the leadership of B. Khmelnytskyi, formed an aristocratic class that tried to defend the idea of Ukraine's independence. Thus, the existence of the Ukrainian Cossack state became an epochal step in the further development of independent Ukraine.

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