Outline of the history of Ukrainian culture: Kyiv, ArtEk, 1998, 727 p.

The author examines the history of events on the territory of the contemporary Ukraine from ancient times to the present day. The author analyzes the history of events in terms of ethnicities, languages, cultures, religions, political events and ideologies.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter I. Indo-European background

§1. Slavs in the group of peoples of the Indo-European language family

§2. Indo-European traditions in spiritual culture

Chapter II. Slavic cultural sources

§1. Slavs on the territory of Ukraine

§2. Mythological space of slavic paganism

§3. Religion, mythology and cults

Chapter III. Culture of Kyivan Rus'

§1. Kyivan Rus in the West-East Perspective

§2. Rus' in the cultural and political perspective of Ukraine

§3. Social Worlds of Rus'

§4. Sacred culture

§5. Extra-sacred culture

Chapter IV. Culture of Ukraine in the XIV - XVII centuries.

§1. Ukraine in the confrontation between the West and the East

§2. Ukraine in the cultural and political system of the Polish-Lithuanian state

§3. Cossacks as a cultural phenomenon

§4. Church and Education

§5. Old Ukrainian baroque culture

Chapter V. Culture of Ukraine in the late XVII - late XVIII centuries.

§1. The Age of Enlightenment – the cultural and political context of Ukrainian history

§2. Old Ukraine: socio-political realities and culture of everyday life

§3. Education and humanitarian culture

§4. Late Ukrainian Baroque

§5. The End of Old Ukrainian Baroque Culture. Hryhorii Skovoroda

Chapter VI. Culture of Ukraine in the first half of the XIXth c.

§1. Conservatives and Liberals in Europe and Russia

§2. The New “Cultural Landscape” of Ukraine

§3. Traditionalism and Romanticism

§4. Mykola Gogol

§5. Taras Shevchenko

Chapter VII. The culture of ukraine in the second half of the XIX-th and early XX-th cc.

§1. The industrial revolution in the west. Realism and subjectivism

§2. Russia on the path of reform. Evolution of the legal and political nature of autocracy

§3. Post-reform and pre-revolutionary Ukraine

§4. Social and political movements in Ukraine

§5. Culture of Ukraine in the 60s and 80s

§6. The Ideology of community and Drahomanov

§7. At the turn of the century

§8. Liberal democratic and socialist thought

Chapter VIII. Culture of Ukraine during the period of communist dictatorship

§1. The crisis of European civilization

§2. The establishment of communist totalitarianism

§3. Ukraine at the epicentre of tragedies

§4. The Cultural Rise of the 20s

§5. Culture of Ukraine during Stalin's totalitarianism

§6. The disintegration of totalitarianism

Summary

What is Ukraine?