The article highlights the genesis of the problem of the formation of the concept of the history of Ukrainian statehood in the scientific literature during the years of Ukraine’s independence.

The purpose of the article. The author set himself the goal of investigating the state and prospects of studying the current scientific problem – “history of Ukrainian statehood” during the period of Ukraine’s independence.

This goal is specified in the following tasks: to determine the periodization of the study of this problem; to analyze the main achievements of domestic historical and legal literature in the development of the doctrine of the history of Ukrainian statehood; to characterize the prospects for further scientific research in the study of the problem of the history of Ukrainian statehood.

 Methodological basis. The application of the principle of historicism allowed us to consider all historical facts, phenomena and events in accordance with specific historical circumstances, in their interconnection and interdependence. All historical phenomena were studied in development: how they arose, what stages they went through in their development, what they ultimately became. Events or individuals, their activities were not considered simultaneously or abstractly, outside of time dimensions.

The problem-chronological method was used to consider historical processes and phenomena from the point of view of their problematic nature and chronological sequence.

The article emphasizes the political, scientific and educational significance of the problem of the history of Ukrainian statehood, its connection with the current problems of life in modern Ukraine. This is especially relevant today, during the period of aggression of the Russian quasi-empire against Ukraine and its desire to destroy our state and bleed the Ukrainian nation. The author identified 3 periods in the development of the history of Ukrainian statehood as a scientific problem, the first of which begins with the publication with the participation of the prominent legal historian Volodymyr Kulchytsky (1919–2009), in whose honor the Scientific Center of Ukrainian Statehood is named. During the more than 30-year period of development of this problem, the main aspects of the doctrine of Ukrainian statehood were formulated, its periods, which were given a detailed and objective characteristic by a number of authoritative authors.

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42. Dubrovska I, ‘Z istorii idei ukrainskoi derzhavnosti’, Ukrainska derzhavnist: stanovlennia, dosvid, problemy: zb. nauk. st. (za materialamy XII Kharkivskykh politolohichnykh chytan) (Iu Bytiak, O Sakhan uporiad, M Panov vidp red, Pravo 2001) 7 (in Ukrainian).

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