Decay of the left movement In Krytyka, No. 6 (44), 2001, pp. 9-10.

The article contains Pavlo Kutuiev's review of the monograph by Oleksii Haran, Oleksandr Maiboroda, Anatolii Tkachuk, and Valerii Khmelnyk, Ukrainian Leftists: Between Leninism and Social Democracy (Kyiv, KM Academia, 2000). The reviewed work is positioned as an interdisciplinary study of Ukrainian leftist movements and an analysis of their prospects in the socio-political development of Ukraine.

In his review, Kutuiev draws attention to the difference between the Ukrainian context and the Western one, in particular, to the absence of a tendency toward the right-wing transformation of leftist movements, which is characteristic of Western societies. Positively assessing the authors' use of Kenneth Jowitt's theory of patrimonial communism, the reviewer notes its heuristic potential in explaining the Ukrainian left's gravitation toward administrative-hierarchical structures.

In conclusion, Pavlo Kutuiev suggests that Ukrainian communists will continue to show a tendency to align themselves with the presidential-oligarchic regime, repeating the trajectory characteristic of their Russian political counterparts.