XIX ALL-UNION PARTY CONFERENCE AS A FACTOR OF THE COLLAPSE OF THE CPSU-KPU IN THE WESTERN REGIONS OF THE UkrSSR
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The Purpose of the Research. In the year of celebrating the 30th anniversary of Ukraine's independence restoration, the research focuses on the reconstruction issues of the reception of the CPSU-CPU decisions of the XIXth All-Union Party Conference by the nomenclature of the Western Ukrainian regional committees in 1988. The chief focus is on the context of the conference destructive influence on the communist elite, which resulted in the collapse of local party bodies in the western regions of the UkrSSR and not the least caused the collapse of the USSR and the Ukrainian state-building renaissance.
The Methodology of the Research. There has been done the scientific analysis of the Communist Party western regions of the UkrSSR elites' reception of the decisions of the XIXth All-Union Conference on a rational stage with observance of the principle of a historical objectivity. In the course of the research the methods of critical and structural analysis and classification, systematization and verification of unpublished archival sources were used. The conclusions are based on the documents of one republican and seven regional archives, as well as the columns of periodicals and the results of field research.
The scientific novelty of the article consists in the fact that for the first time in the Ukrainian and world historical science there has been done a comprehensive analysis of the party nomenclature disintegration as the highest social stratum in the western regions of the UkrSSR at the end of the 80s of the XXth century, which occurred as a result of its natural inability to a democratic innovation. Such a comprehensive analysis was possible on the basis of the introduction of a new archival documentary database and interviews with participants and contemporaries of the events.
The Conclusions. The main results of the scientific article are revealed on the basis of the a priori impossibility of the synthesis of autocratic and democratic methods of the state building, which was used by the initiators of "perestroika" in order to preserve the monopoly right to power. Therefore, the political reform in the USSR, proclaimed at the XIXth All-Union Party Conference in 1988 in the direction of “Sovietization” of the country, not only was unable to strengthen the position of the CPSU, but also naturally led to the rapid corrosion of the highest bodies of local party structures, which in turn caused a total reduction in the number of communist bodies and not the least enabled the collapse of the Soviet Union and the proclamation of Ukraine as an independent state.
Key words: XIX All-Union Party Conference, CPSU-CPU, Western Ukrainian regional committees, political reform, disintegration, collapse.
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