The moulding of Ukraine: the constitutional politics of state formation

Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Constitutions and Statehoods -- Constitutions and Constitutionalism: the Anglo-Saxon and European Continental Perspectives -- Functions of the Constitution -- Constitution and State Formation -- Plan of the Book -- Notes -- 2. In Search of a Tradition: Discontinuities of Statehood in Ukraine's History -- From Kyiv Rus' to the Hetmanate -- The Ukrainian Revolution -- Ukraine's National 'Awakening' in the Nineteenth Century -- The Ukrainian Revolution, 1917-1921: an Overview -- The Ukrainian State, 1917-1921 -- The Political Community -- The Institutional Framework -- Institutions at the Centre -- The Territory and Territorial-Administrative Model -- The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic: 1919-1991 -- The Institutional Framework: the System of Soviets -- The Territorial Changes and Administrative Division -- The Political Community -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3. Independence Without a Vision: Constitution Making in 1990-1991 -- Ukrainian Society under the Soviet Union: an Overview -- Ukraine on the Eve of Independence -- The Passage to Independence -- The Limits of Change: Constitutional Debates and Institutional Reforms, 1990-1991 -- The Form of Government -- Socialism in Sovereign Ukraine: Ideology of the New State -- Defining the 'Sovereign People' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4. Simulating Reforms Amidst Constitutional Disarray: Ukraine Under Kravchuk's Presidency -- The Political Scene after the Independence -- The National-Democrats -- Centre -- The 'Former 239' and the Left -- Executive-Legislative Relations: from Impasse to Crisis -- The Aggrandisement of the Presidency -- Kravchuk as the Chief Executive -- The Rise of the Prime Minister -- A Stalemate -- Constitution Drafting, 1992-1993 -- Conclusion -- Notes.