Adamovych S. Conciliarity and regional development in social-political life of independent Ukraine.

The theses analyze the making of the independent Ukrainian state in terms of social unity. The author argues that in the making of independent Ukraine some part of the party-soviet elite was stirring up disintegrating processes in order to preserve their power. To prevent the USSR disintegration, a territorial autonomy of the Crimea was artificially created, an unnatural idea of "new-Russian" ethnos in the Northern Ukraine was articulated. The Russyn self-identification of a part of Trans-Carpathian population was emphasized. The issue of a special status of Russian-speaking minorities in Donbas area was raised. Radical organizations of Hungarian and Romanian minorities activated their work in Trans-Carpathian and Chernivtzi oblasts. Nevertheless, due to the considered national policy, the Ukrainian central authorities stopped disintegrating processes in the country and achieved social consolidation around the independence idea in all-Ukrainian referendum on December 1, 1991.