THE HISTORY OF THE FORMATION OF THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF POLTAV REGION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XXI CENTURY

Abstract

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the process of forming a political culture, and with it the evolution of the political consciousness of Ukrainians, acquired new orientations in view of the fact that the old communist political ideology was collapsing and ultimately disappearing. These phenomena of social life had local specificity. The regions of Ukraine demonstrated differences in the value aspects of the development of "local parliamentarism", the history of the formation of local self-government and the functioning of civil society in regions and territorial communities had its differences in the plane of normative regulation of this process. The rational and even subconscious choice of one or another political force to represent their political interests in local authorities by residents of different regions of the state had their vectors. This study is designed to describe the perceptions of citizens who lived in the territory of Poltava region at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries, taking into account the relations with the institutions of power and with each other in the process of electoral choice to realize their participation in the management of society and the state. With the development of its own specific model of democracy in post-Soviet Ukraine, the political culture of the population of Poltava Oblast acquired eclectic features and at the beginning of the 21st century resembled Frankenstein's monster, which was based on leftist ideological beliefs. The study showed that this ideology actually did not go beyond the loyal attitude to the authorities, which was characteristic of Ukrainian society since the times of totalitarianism.