Pashkova O. National Idea as a Faktor of Consolidation of the Ukrainian society.

In the Dissertation it was exercised political and scientific analysis of the national Idea as a consolidation Faktor of modern Ukrainian society. The national Idea was examined in social and political aspect as the package of views in regard to consolidation of social and political forces around general goal - to obtain the statehood and the development of the Ukrainian society on basis of common principles of relationships among the person, society and state. Special attention was taken to analyze objective and subjective factors, which made the process of definition complex in modern conditions and cutivate basis criteria as for its modern content. The outcome of this it was suggested possible ways to outline its practical meaning part. Its was disclosed the role of the consolidation function, which includes existing social and political groups of the society (which bear different, but opposite interests) have joined together around common ideals, valuables, providing the consolidation of the community, its organization and self-organization. That is why the consolidation function comes out as system - creating to other functions of the national Idea among which identifiend, nation and creating, world and educational, predicting and state-creating functions.