|
Many people are trying to give an answer to the question “What is going
on in the country and society? Where are we going?” ten years after the
proclamation of independence. Among these people are politicians, who
cannot be expected to be objective; analysts, who are more objective but
usually narrowed down to their particular sphere of specialty; and finally,
people of creative professions whose descriptions are sometimes extremely
accurate but other times – extremely far from the truth.
In this work, we tried to put them together and present to the reader
polyphony of opinions of the leading experts, politicians, and workers
of culture on the situation in the present-day Ukraine. As editors and
publishers of this work, our selection of texts and authors to be included
have been by no means neutral. We ordered key expert articles from specific
authors, whom we view as leading experts in the fields of history, economy,
sociology, and culture. We turned to concrete politicians, analysts, and
workers of culture, since it is them who have authority in our eyes and
in the eyes of our readers. We asked them provocative questions (an expert
opinion poll in the terms of sociology), tabulating their answers according
to directions important for learning the truth.
Finally, from their texts we selected only the most significant (from
our point of view) ideas and thoughts and put them together in this book.
The book turned out, in the opinion of many, to be a unique mirror of
the Ukrainian society on the edge between two centuries.
Then the infamous “tape scandal” broke out, and many thought that answers
to the complex questions of our post-Soviet modernization will be found
on those tapes. This never happened, however, neither could it happen
(although it was an important “moment of the truth” for all of us), and
we returned to the more traditional methods of learning. In this connection,
we – editors and publishers – made a decision that it is very important
to prepare an English version of the book. We failed to wake the interest
of foreign publishers in this idea. Nevertheless, we are still determined
to publish this book in Ukraine. We realize that on this path we are going
to face language problems, and we ask our readers to forgive us in advance.
Maybe in the future it will be easier for us to solve such problems.
L. Finberg, V. Ruban, T. Voznyak
CONTENTS
Natalia Yakovenko About "historical memory"
and "historical traditions" of Ukrainian people
Yevhen Holovakha, Natalia Panina A social
portrait of contemporary Ukraine
Taras Voznyak “Project Ukraine”. Decade
Summary
Bohdan Hawrylyshyn Ukraine between East
and West, North and South: Geopolitical options and constraints
Oleksandr Hrytsenko Culture in Ukraine
Hryhorij Nemyrya Ukraine between Europe
and Asia
Oleksandr Paskhaver New Ukrainian State
Kostyantyn Sigov The lesson of Chornobyl
Viktor Vovk Ukraine In The Context Of The
Global Trends And Scenarios Of The World Development
Answers for questions of Ukrainian Prospects Fund
History
Society
Politics
Culture
Prognosis
Translators and Editors of Translations: William Glison, Nathan
Meir, Kurt Leutgeb, Anna Sumar, Iryna Hontcharova
Autors of the issue
Yakovenko Natalia Political scientist, professor of National University
“Kyiv Mohyla Academy”, lives in Kyiv
Hawrylyshyn Bohdan Swiss political scientist and economist, member
of Managers Board of Roman Club, Counsellor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine,
member of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, lives in Geneve
Nemyrya Hryhorij Political scientist, director of Centre for European
Studies of the Institute of International Relations of Kyiv National University,
lives in Kyiv
Holovakha Yevhen Political scientist, scientific counsellor of
the dept. of social and political processes of the Institute of Sociology,
editor-in-chief of the magazine “Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing”,
lives in Kyiv
Panina Natalia Political scientist, head of the dept. of social
and political processes of the Institute of Sociology, lives in Kyiv
Paskhaver Oleksandr Economist, president of Economic Development
Centre, counsellor to the President of Ukraine, lives in Kyiv
Voznyak Taras Culturologist, philosopher, political scientist,
editor-in-chief of Independent cultural magazine “Ji”, lives in Lviv
Hrytsenko Oleksandr director of Culture Policy Institute, deputy
director of the Ukrainian Centre for Cultural Studies, lives in Kyiv
Viktor Vovk Ph.D. Deputy Director, Institute for
Sustainable Development (Kyiv)
|
