Procesy społeczno-polityczne w Ukraińskiej SRR: osobliwości, tendencje, skutki (przełom lat osiemdziesiątych i dziewięćdziesiątych XX w.)
Socio-political Processes in the Ukrainian SSR: Peculiarities, Trends, Consequences (the Second Half of the 1980s – Early 1990s)

Summary/Abstract: In the second half of the 1980s, the Communist Party of Ukraine fell into a deep system crisis, which triggered a wave of discontent among this major part of the USSR, particu- larly in the Western regions, and resulted in a disassembly of the communist system in 1991. The article analyses general trends in socio-political processes in the USSR in the period of glasnost, rebuilding and democratization (1985–1991), defines the specifics of the emergence of “informal” social and political organizations, the People’s Movement of Ukraine and their demands, as well as the methods for their implementation, discusses the relations between the state and the Orthodox Church and the specifics of the legalization of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church and of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the USSR and the relations between religious associations at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. It also proves that the relative political stabilization in the first year of the rebuilding changed after the election campaign to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 1990 and to local authorities, which triggered a political conflict between the national and democratic forces and the Communist Party of Ukraine. This all was crowned by Ukraine’s regaining of independence on 24 August 1991.

• Details
• Contents