Melnyk I. International relations in the period of the USSR's disintegration.

The thesis is the first research in which on the conceptual level is stated the system generalization of the scientific problem of investigation the international relations in the USSR in the period of its disintegration on independent states. The analysis of the dynamics of its development was made, the principles, tendancies which favoured the stress of internal contradictions in the country were investigated. Based on great scientific and factological material it is proved that changing of the federal grounds of the USSR's structure as multinational state to centralised unitarianism caused the crisis of the chosen model; stress of contradictions between theoretical model and real social condition; between the union centre and the union repablics. The main conclusion of the thesis lie in, that disintegration of the USSR was programmed by the nature of its creation.