Formation and development of multi-party in the Kyiv region during the Perestroika years

Abstract

The article examines the process of formation, activity and development of newly created political parties against the background of the policy of perestroika and the processes of transformation of the socio-political life of the Kyiv region. Considerable attention is paid to the activities of such opposition structures as: the Ukrainian Republican Party, the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party, the Green Party of Ukraine, the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine, the Democratic Party of Ukraine, the Party of Democratic Revival of Ukraine. The purpose of the work is to study and analyze the characteristic features and peculiarities of the processes of formation and development of multi-partyism in the Kyiv region during the years of perestroika, to study the interaction of regional centers of opposition parties of the national-democratic orientation with city centers. The main methods of our research are the principle of historicism, comprehensiveness and systematicity. In addition, retrospective, analytical, comparative-historical, general scientific methods are also used. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that today domestic historical science is represented by works of a general nature on this topic, while there are no publications on the regional specifics of this issue. Main results. This issue requires further indepth research into the activities of the aforementioned parties of the perestroika period in the Kyiv region. The practical activities of the parties, their participants, leaders, program ideas, the process of formation and establishment of multi-party system in the Kyiv region are analyzed, and the cause-and-effect relationships of this process are determined. Conclusions. The formation and development of multi-party system in the Kyiv region took place in the context of socio-political transformations in the USSR, taking into account the specifics of their development in the Ukrainian SSR and each individual region. The formation of opposition party structures was a natural continuation of the activities of informal organizations, which later, against the background of socio-political changes, were transformed into political parties with programs of specific political actions. The main feature of the formation and development of multi-party system in the Kyiv region was that the region was close to Kyiv, so the process of demarcation of central and regional structures took place more slowly here than in other regions of Ukraine.