SYNERGETIC ANALYSIS OF TRANSITIONAL CHANGES DURING NATIONAL LIBERATION STRUGGLE OF 1917-1921 IN UKRAINE

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the Ukrainian political process in times of national liberation struggle of 1917 ‐ 1921 from the point of synergetic approach. Based on the concepts of such prominent scholars as H. Haken, I. Prigogine, O. Dobrocheev, P. Turchyn and A. Korotayev and by means of synergetic methodology the authors distinguished two levels of analysis of the problem: on macrolevel, in terms of the whole Russian Empire, the bifurcation point lasted for more than 4 years up to 1921; on the microlevel, within Ukraine, there were several obvious periods of deterministic influence and, accordingly, several points of bifurcation observed in October‐ November 1917, April 1918, November‐December 1918, August‐September 1919. Operating by the concept of power density the authors expressed the hypothesis that a drastic reduction in duration of periods of deterministic development and frequent occurrence of bifurcation points were caused by the "crushing" of the total political entity.