Social changes and national consciousness in 20th century Ukraine

Bohdan Kravchenko analyzes the macrosocial development of Ukraine in the 20th century — from the eve of the revolutions of 1917 to the early 1970s. Having processed a large array of open data and available sources, Kravchenko showed how Ukrainian national consciousness was formed in the dialectics of resistance and adaptation to Soviet social realities.

The main characters of the book, which was based on the author's doctoral dissertation defended at the University of Oxford, are modernization, urbanization, Soviet economic and cultural policy, as well as national self-determination under colonial pressure. A new generation of readers, who now have access to much more archival sources, will find in this monograph a methodological tool for better understanding themselves as part of the Ukrainian political nation.

Bohdan Kravchenko is also an honorary doctor of the University of North London and an honorary professor of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. As a practitioner, he contributed to the formation of modern Ukrainian statehood. He initiated the establishment of the Institute of Public Administration and Local Self-Government under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (1992) and headed it, and was one of the initiators and authors of the first Law of Ukraine "On Civil Service" (1993).