Authors

Viktor Stepanenko¹;  ¹ Institute of Sociology, Nat.Academy of sciences, Ukraine

Discussion

The complex interrelations between the state and civil society in Ukraine’s nation-state building passed at least three historical configurations since 1991 till nowadays: 1) civil society before the state, 2) the state above civil society and 3) civil society above/along with the state. From the 2013 Revolution of Dignity to the current wartime Ukraine’s civil society became an influential and trustful institutional actor that serves as a domestic counter-balance to the authorities and involves in nation-state building at institutional and micro-social levels. Patriotism, solidarity, resilience and other civic virtues are shaping and strengthening in the battlefield and in various forms of volunteering and civic activism in wartime. These also articulate new senses of Ukrainian civic nation and identity. At the same time current experience of psychological and cultural trauma of the war are also now the part of Ukrainian national identity.