Ukrainian Independence as a Historical Inevitability

Abstract

The main aim of the research is to uncover, that regain of Ukrainian independence in 1991 is not an accident, historical paradox or anomaly, but regularity of the historical process.

The research methodology is based on the principles of historicism, systematization, scientificity. General scientific, special and interdisciplinary methods of scientific knowledge are applied, as well as theoretical developments of leading Ukrainian history scientists and related disciplines.

Scientific novelty. Based on a new and newly read historical and historiographical sources, the irreversibility of cultural, economic and political changes that took place in Ukraine and in the USSR during the second half of the twentieth century are proved.

Conclusions. In the second half of the twentieth century Soviet system was rapidly depleting its resources, potential, destroying itself on its own. Total unification and monopolization among its features contradicted the principle of diversity, which is always a condition of self-development. The most important features of the system were non-competitive militarized economy, irrational use of human and natural resources, inefficient management methods, mass violations of fundamental human rights and freedoms. Antihumane and illegal means of achieving the strategic goals of the communist regime, the unresolved national question resulted in inevitable regime downfall.