Nesterenko G. Autopoesis of Ukrainian political nation: principles and mechanisms

In the centre of the dissertation - the idea that there are internal factors of nation-genesis which belong to the nation itself. They ensured forming and reserving of Ukrainian political nation essential properties, which existed in their covert state and were displayed in different historical periods in propitious conditions. Thus the Ukrainian political nation growing in the modern conditions is represented as a process of its essential properties autopoesis. Рolitical nation is determined as an ethno-social system qualitative specific of which is defined by such essential properties: level of national self-awareness and will to political self-organization, which cause sovereign democratic state forming and intention of a common future. Self-organizational and entropy mechanisms of Ukrainian political nation autopoesis are selected. Principles of autopoesis are formulated on the basis of which it is possible to optimize the process of becoming of Ukrainian political nation on the modern stage.