Riabinska Anastasiia. Ideological principles of Kyrilo-Mefodiev branch

Abstract

The article attempts to outline and analyze the ideological and ideological and political principles and principles of the Cyril and Methodius Society. The urgency of the article is that the Cyril-Methodius Brotherhood has formed a completely unique ideological principles that have become an important basis for the national liberation struggle of several generations of Ukrainians. The purpose of the article is to analyze the ideological foundations of the Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood as one of the leading ideological and political organizations in Ukraine during the period of statelessness. The methodological basis of the article is general scientific and special disciplinary methods of scientific research. In particular, the methods of theoretical generalization, analogy and abstraction are used when considering the preconditions for the formation of the ideology of the Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood; deduction and induction, analysis and synthesis – in the analysis of state-legal ideas of the Cyril-Methodius Brotherhood. Also, the method of historical comparatism contributes to the characterization of the political ideas of the Cyril and Methodius brotherhood. The results of the study are based on the conclusion that the Cyril-Methodist people sought to achieve national consensus on the basis of the development of education and science, to ensure high spirituality and put it all at the service of gaining statehood. The concept of the Slavic federation, M. Kostomarov, penetrated with the spirit of democracy, opened in Pan-Slavism the principle of humane international relations, without any signs of conquest or domination between the united Slavic republics. The activities of the Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood caused a significant resonance in the then Ukraine on both sides of the Russian-Austrian border. His political and legal ideology became a milestone in the formation of Ukrainian political thought, a kind of catalyst for processes that allowed the nation to emerge from the spiritual crisis associated with the collapse of the Hetmanate and marked a new stage in the struggle for an independent state-political existence.