ABSTRACT
This chapter describes and analyzes the all-European context—political, cultural, and social—related to the formation of historical politics in Ukraine. Understanding these contexts will help locate Ukraine on the European map of historical politics and discover both its similarities to some general tendencies and its national peculiarities. The phrase “all-European context” should not be misleading: it only became “common” when states’ historical politics had similar dynamics and orientations (for instance, ideological) or when they were produced by the purposeful action of either national governments that agreed on common politics or transnational and supranational European entities. Of course, any community also rests on certain universally adopted basic values.
