The Moulding of Modern Ukraine

• List of Tables
• p. xi

• List of Abbreviations
• p. xiii

• Acknowledgements
• p. xv

• Preface
• p. xvii

• Chapter 1
• Introduction: Constitutions and Statehood
• p. 1

• Constitutions and Constitutionalism: the Anglo-Saxon and European Continental Perspectives
• p. 2

• Functions of the Constitution
• p. 7

• Constitution and State Formation
• p. 12

• Plan of the Book
• p. 17

• Notes
• p. 23

• Chapter 2
• In Search of a Tradition: Discontinuities of Statehood in Ukraine's History
• p. 29

• From Kyiv Rus' to the Hetmanate
• p. 31

• The Ukrainian Revolution
• p. 33

• Ukraine's National 'Awakening' in the Nineteenth Century
• p. 33

• The Ukrainian Revolution, 1917-1921: an Overview
• p. 36

• The Ukrainian State, 1917-1921
• p. 39

• The Political Community
• p. 39

• The Institutional Framework
• p. 41

• Institutions at the Centre
• p. 41

• The Territory and Territorial-Administrative Model
• p. 43

• The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic: 1919-1991
• p. 45

• The Institutional Framework: the System of Soviets
• p. 47

• The Territorial Changes and Administrative Division
• p. 50

• The Political Community
• p. 51

• Conclusion
• p. 52

• Notes
• p. 53

• Chapter 3
• Independence Without A Vision: Constitution Making in 1990-1991
• p. 59

• Ukrainian Society under the Soviet Union: an Overview
• p. 61

• Ukraine on the Eve of Independence
• p. 65

• The Passage to Independence
• p. 66

• The Limits of Change: Constitutional Debates and Institutional Reforms, 1990-1991
• p. 78

• The Form of Government
• p. 79

• Socialism in Sovereign Ukraine: Ideology of the New State
• p. 85

• Defining the 'Sovereign People'
• p. 87

• Conclusion
• p. 90

• Notes
• p. 94

• Chapter 4
• Simulating Reforms Amidst Constitutional Disarray: Ukraine Under Kravchuk's Presidency
• p. 103

• The Political Scene after the Independence
• p. 104

• The National-Democrats
• p. 105

• Centre
• p. 107

• The 'Former 239' and the Left
• p. 108

• Executive-Legislative Relations: from Impasse to Crisis
• p. 110

• The Aggrandisement of the Presidency
• p. 110

• Kravchuk as the Chief Executive
• p. 113

• The Risk of the Prime Minister
• p. 116

• A Stalemate
• p. 116

• Constitution Drafting, 1992-1993
• p. 119

• Conclusion
• p. 122

• Notes
• p. 125

• Chapter 5
• How to Organise the State? Constitutional Debates After the 1994 Elections
• p. 129

• The 1994 Parliamentary and Presidential Elections
• p. 130

• The New Parliament: an Undecided Balance
• p. 130

• The New President: the Eclectic Electoral Platform
• p. 136

• Defining Ukrainian Statehood: the Constitutional Issues and Preferences
• p. 139

• The Form of Government
• p. 141

• The Left: Norodovladia
• p. 141

• The National-Democrats: away from the Soviets
• p. 144

• The President: in Pursuit of Executive Powers
• p. 147

• The Territorial Framework of the State
• p. 150

• Federalism versus Unitary Models
• p. 150

• Federalism
• p. 150

• Unitarism
• p. 152

• Crimea
• p. 156

• The Unitary Model: 'Reformers', 'Restorationists' and Decentralisation
• p. 159

• Regional Units
• p. 160

• The Role and Powers of the Regional Self-governing Bodies
• p. 161

• Representation of Regions at the Centre
• p. 164

• Defining the 'Political Community'
• p. 167

• The National-Democrats: the 'Ukrainian People'
• p. 167

• The Left: 'the People of Ukraine'
• p. 171

• The Parliamentary Centre and the President
• p. 174

• Conclusion
• p. 177

• Notes
• p. 181

• Chapter 6
• The Passage of the Constitution: Process, Actors, and Strategies
• p. 189

• From a 'Little' to a 'Big' Constitution
• p. 191

• The Unpromising Re-launch of Constitution Making (July-December 1994)
• p. 191

• The 'Little Constitution' (December 1994-June 1995)
• p. 192

• The Constitutional Commission (Summer 1995-February 1996)
• p. 196

• The March Draft
• p. 198

• The Parliamentary Commission (March-May 1996)
• p. 199

• Plenary Debates in Parliament (June 1996)
• p. 201

• The Constitutional Night (27-28 June 1996)
• p. 202

• Actors' Preferences, Strategies and Institutional Resources
• p. 205

• The Presidency
• p. 205

• Then Left
• p. 209

• The National-Democrats
• p. 213

• The Centre
• p. 217

• Conclusion
• p. 219

• Notes
• p. 221

• Chapter 7
• Ukraine as a Nation-State: the Conception of Statehood in the 1996 Constitution
• p. 227

• The Political Community
• p. 227

• Private Property, Rights and Liberties
• p. 232

• The Institutional Framework
• p. 236

• Institutions at the Centre
• p. 236

• The Territorial-Administrative Model of the State
• p. 241

• Conclusion
• p. 244

• Notes
• p. 248

• Chapter 8
• Ukraine Under the New Constitution: the Anatomy of a Crisis
• p. 253

• 'The Morning after': Executive-Legislative Relations under the New Constitution
• p. 255

• The 1998 Parliamentary Elections
• p. 261

• A Futile Search for a Parliamentary Majority
• p. 264

• From the Presidential Elections to a Constitutional Crisis
• p. 270

• Tipping the Balance towards Super-presidentialism?
• p. 277

• Conclusion
• p. 280

• Notes
• p. 281

• Conclusion
• p. 285

• Notes
• p. 290

• Bibliography
• p. 291

• Primary Sources
• p. 291

• Archival Materials and Documents
• p. 291

• Interviews Conducted by the Author
• p. 292

• Ukrainian Newspapers and Periodicals Used for the Research
• p. 293

• Secondary Sources
• p. 294

• General
• p. 294

• Books and Articles on Ukraine (in English)
• p. 301

• Books and Articles on Ukraine (in Ukrainian, Polish or Russian)
• p. 307

• Index
• p. 311