ACHIEVEMENTS OF MODERN UKRAINIAN STUDIES IN EDUCATION / Review of the Textbook: Krysyachenko V. S. Ukrainian Studies: Humanitarian Dimensions. Kyiv: Lira-K Publishing, 2025. 504 p.

Abstract

This review is dedicated to the analysis of a new book by the prominent Ukrainian scholar and encyclopedist - Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Political Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, author of more than 400 scientific works including 22 individual monographs and 11 textbooks and teaching manuals - Valentyn Krysachenko. Ukrainian Studies: Humanitarian Dimensions, recently published by Lira-K in Kyiv.
The textbook analyzes the phenomenon of Ukraine as a systemic whole in space and time, best captured in the author’s own words: "Ukraine! Eternal and immortal, vulnerable and weak, self-sufficient and proud, indestructible and heroic, natural and spiritual..."
The work explores the evolution of Ukrainian Studies from descriptive to nomothetic stages of scientific discourse in the pursuit of truth. It highlights the fundamental humanitarian foundations of the Ukrainian people; presents Ukraine as a coherent geopolitical and civilizational reality; and outlines the prospects for its affirmation in the face of existential challenges posed by the genocidal aggression of the Russian invaders against Ukraine and the corresponding threats to the entire civilized world.