ОСОБЛИВОСТІ УКРАЇНСЬКИХ ПОЛІТИЧНИХ ПРОЦЕСІВ У КОНТЕКСТІ ДЕМОКРАТИЧНИХ І ПОСТКОМУНІСТИЧНИХ ТРАНСФОРМАЦІЙ

The purpose of the study is to characterize the political processes and to determine the peculiarities of the functioning of the political system of modern Ukraine in the context of the theories of post-totalitarian democratic transformations adopted in political science. The methodology of the research is based on the principles of systematic, dialectics, reliability, logic. Methods of system analysis, dialectic, comparative, synthesis, structural and functional, generalization are used. Main Conclusions: The political processes of modern Ukraine in general correspond to the peculiarities of post-communist transformations. Political transformation in Ukraine takes place in a non-linear form with some contradictions, which makes it impossible to define its political regime as democratic in the classical interpretation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]