Основные этапы и тенденции трансформации украинского общества: от перестройки до "оранжевой революции"

Abstract

The article deals with the analysis of main stages and tendencies of social trans formations that have been taken place in Ukraine since the wellknown Perestroika in the ex-USSR. Transformational processes are studied in very important for Ukrainian society aspects, such as: institutional, sociostructural, and sociopsychological. Besides, the authors concentrated a special attention on the role of classes, elites, and the broad masses in the different stages of period have been analyzed.