Academic movement to the independence of Ukraine

Abstract

The author of the article shares his memories of the birth of the socio-political organization “People's Movement of Ukraine for Reconstruction,” or simply Rukh, in which the Ukrainian scientific and creative elite played a decisive organizational and programmatic role. The movement became the main driver of the dismantling of the bankrupt communist regime and the revival of Ukraine's statehood, its acquisition of the status of an independent, sovereign state and significantly influenced the definition of ways of socioeconomic development and European integration of Ukraine.