Vermenych, Yaroslava. Concepts of Ukraine’s European Progress in the Vision of Mykhailo Drahomanov
Vermenych, Yaroslava. Concepts of Ukraine’s European Progress in the Vision of Mykhailo Drahomanov. Text. Data. Kyiv: NAS of Ukraine. Institute of History of Ukraine, 2025. 66 p.
Abstract
Through the prism of the phenomenon of Mykhailo Drahomanov, the influence of the intellectual environment on the processes of forming socio-political thought in Ukraine in the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries is comprehended. In the context of the modern realities of the “civilizational rupture,” the concepts of civilizational progress of M. Drahomanov are studied as a process based on substantiating the necessity of Ukraine’s European geopolitical choice and the construction of a “Ukrainian project” in tandem with pan-European social processes.
The scholar’s views on decentralization and local self-government as factors of progressive development of society are analyzed. The issues of territorial unity, political independence, and conciliarity of Ukraine, which were in the focus of M. Drahomanov’s attention in the process of developing projects of community self-government and administrative autonomy, are considered.
It is emphasized that the integration of Ukraine into the European space requires the actualization of the European nature of the Ukrainian idea and the awareness of the European foundations of the Ukrainian intellectual heritage. The Ukrainian people must clearly declare their contribution to the development of the general European idea and make an attempt to bring Ukrainianness into the European idea.
To achieve this, it is necessary to perceive the European idea as “their own” and to comprehend its deep rootedness in the tradition of Ukrainian political culture.
