UKRAINE, 1991-2014: SOCIAL EARTHQUAKES AS TNE CHAINS OF ONE CEASELESS PROCESS
Ukraine passed through three revolutionary waves on the border of the twentieth and twenty one centuries. It was: the collapse of the Soviet Union and proclamation of state independence, the «Orange» revolution and the «revolution of dignity». Each of them was forewent by the crisis of political system, corruption, outright falsification of the will, ignoring interests of the population, attempts to manipulate of mass consciousness. The ruling classes’ desperate attempts to save the deeply contaminated system while their own privileges with it had aroused considerable public response. Ukrainian civic society withstood them. Ukrainian civic society has intergraded considerably. At the time, the Ukrainians not only were understanding their values, interests and rights. They were ready to fight for them. Since the second half of the 1980-th were arising the new and recreating the old public organizations such as: Union of writers of Ukraine, Lev Company, student organization «Community», Ukrainian studies club «Heritage», Ukrainian Cultural club etc. Lately all these organizations had shaped the People’s Movement of Ukraine. They have showed the unprecedented for the Soviet Ukraine civil activity. The failure of the Emergency Committee accelerated one watershed event: the pronouncement of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine 24.08.1991. The «Orange» revolution has started in November 2004. Students, intelligentsia, entrepreneurs had becommen its driving forces. In other words, the Ukrainian middle class made the «Orange» revolution. The rude fraud poll for the one candidate was the pretext for it. But the cause of it was the that: the contradiction between the requirement of Ukrainian civil society and the reality. In November 2014 the «Revolution of dignity» has started. And again students, intelligentsia, entrepreneurs were its driving forces - the same middle class. The cause was the same. Only the pretext has changed. The President of Ukraine V. Yanukovich neglected to sign the Association Agreement with the European Union. All these events were not mere meetings and protest actions. They were not spontaneous. This is the regularity, the components of one process. This is the process of the transformation of Ukrainian society.