Moskalenko V. The development of political psychology in Ukraine: the historical retrospective and the new experience

The object of study – the process of development of political psychology in Ukraine. The purpose of study is periodization, feature and direction of development of domestic political psychology. The methods: analytic-integrative, historical, comparative, comparative-historical, prognostic, political analysis, system analysis, interdiscipline approach. Novelty: the dissertation is one of the first attempts of the complex analysis of historical and newest experience of development of domestic political psychology; the theoretic-methodological base of historical rating of the ukrainian political psychology in cultural - historical measurement was developed and the features of its development are determined. The theoretical value of work: 1) improvement of performances about a history of domestic political psychology; 2) expansion of performances about the theory and methodology of modern political psychology in Ukraine; 3) theoretical substantiation of necessity of definition of a state priority of political psychology in Ukraine in scientific, educational and social aspect. The practical value of work: the carried out research expands opportunities the problems of dichotomy "authority - people" in a modern society to explain adequately; the received results can be used by the political psychologists, politologists, sociologists and political technologists at research of a political-psychological problematic in the interelective period, and also during presidential and parliamentary elections. Efficiency of the introduction - high. The sphere of the use: higher educational institutions, political psychological services.