Vasylchuk Y. Youth Political Radicalism and Extremism in Modern Ukraine

The doctoral thesis has made a comprehensive analysis of signs of political radicalism and extremism among young people in Ukraine for the first time in the national political science. Ideological and cultural origins of radicalize ideological doctrines have been analyzed and the classification of extremist communities have been made. The role of sub-cultural and religious sources in forming political and ideological concepts of extremism has been defined and proved. The impact of socio-economic, socio-cultural and socio-political factors on the propagation of extremist ideas and practices among young people has been studied. The state of institutional and legal provision and the ability to prevent and resist extremism in Ukraine has been considered. Priorities to improve the institutional and legal support of government policy have been substantiated and copyright recommendations on the development and implementation of information and psychological and socio-cultural technologies of extremism deactivation among Ukrainian youth have been designed.