On the statehood issue in the Ukrainian history
By the example of a number of regions, the author demonstrates the in-fluence of historical factors on the nature of modern foreign and domestic policy. The extremely low intensity level of the feudal revolution in Little Russia in the situation of expansion of the Great Duchy of Lithuania hardly contributed to the subsequent political development and only reproduced the recurrences of archaic institutions and practices until modern period. This became a factor that interfered with the further normal state building in the history of Ukraine. Already at the time of the Galicia-Volyn principality, an archetype began to form, which was later reproduced during the period of the Khmelnytsky Uprising, the Ruin, and during the Civil War of 1917-1920, and in modern Ukraine. It is the Ukraine's specific geopolitical position that determined its dependence on neighboring powers, and the lack of unity within the elite, its corporatism, egoism, the struggle for power by all available means including external interference. The presence of elements of statehood in these periods was accompanied by a process of permanent crisis, which often took on difficult forms.