Yefremova N. Development of the Constitutional Legislation in Ukraine (1917-1920).

The thesis is devoted to the research of process of the constitutional construction in the Ukrainian People’s Republic, Ukrainian state during the Hetmanship (Hetmanate), the West-Ukrainian People’s Republic and the Ukrainian People’s Republic during Directory withіn Soviet period and Their normative legal and normative projective base up to 1920. A considerable amount of normative legal acts of Ukraine of the mentioned above period olso special literature on the theme were analysed during the research. The reasons which influenced negatively the development of Ukrainian statehood during 1917-1920 were revealed in the work. Besides, considerable attention was given to the study of draft constitutions of Ukrainian State. In this part of the paper two draft constitutions Never published before were thoroughly analysed from the Juridical point of view. Much was also done to authenticate the Authorship of those documents and as result some other points Regarding this matter have been specified.