Danylenko V.M. Ukraine in 1985–1991: the last chapter of Soviet history. - K.: Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2018. - 278 p.

Abstract

The article is devoted to a monograph devoted to the changes in the socio-economic, socio-political, cultural and spiritual spheres of the social life of Soviet Ukraine during the period of the Gorbachev perestroika, analyzes the stages of the crisis of the party-Soviet system, describes the basic laws and driving forces of the processes that led to restoration of state independence of the Ukrainian people. The main subjects of the study are the socio-economic preconditions for the proclamation of independence, the growth of the political activity of Ukrainian society, the national-cultural uplift, the restoration of Ukrainian statehood and the first steps of Ukraine in the path of independence.

The author successfully combines the events of the historical past and the present, which enables to fully observe the complicated process of socio-political transformations - preconditions, stages of formation and prospects of development of Ukrainian statehood. Monograph Danilenko V.М. is a significant scientific research in the study of modern history of Ukraine, an example of a tolerant attitude to the historical past and its objective comprehension, and it can be recommended to specialists, political and public figures, applicants for higher education, all who are interested in the national history of the modern period.