The Documents of Communist Party Organizations of the Kyiv Region in the Context of Studying the Crisis of the Mono-Party System and the Formation of Political Pluralism in Ukraine (1988–1991)

On the base of the documents of the State Archives of Kyiv Region an attempt was made to highlight the internal and external signs of the collapse of the dominant role of the CPSU / CPU in society, the emergence of political pluralism in the country and the beginning of a multiparty system in 1988-1991. Thus, the purpose of the article is to use archival and documentary content, fi rst of all, documents of party organizations of Kyiv region, which are the main source of information in this publication, when considering signs of crisis of mono-party and development of pluralistic tendencies in Ukrainian society 1988 – mid 1991. The research methodology is based on the general scientifi c principles of historicism, objectivity and reliance on historical sources. The research methodology is based on the general scientifi c principles of historicism, objectivity and reliance on historical sources. The author's use of methods of historical analysis, synthesis, comparison and statistical generalization provides an opportunity to consider the crisis of the socio-political processes of Soviet society in their dynamics and show the causal determinism of political pluralism against the background of the collapse of the Communist Party of Ukraine, and the method of visualization of statistical information helps to illustrate the qualitative and quantitative indicators of this process. The novelty of this publication is the introduction into scientifi c circulation of a large an array of previously unpublished documents of communist organizations of Kyiv region, diff ering in content, form and level of generalization of information (the protocols of meetings of bureaus, plenums and conferences of regional, district, city and primary party organizations, opinion polls, correspondence of citizens with party organizations, etc.). The above material allows us to conclude that if we neglect the obligatory ideological component and evaluative judgments, carefully fi ltering the facts, we can confi dently call the documents of party organizations used in the article a full and self-suffi cient source for studying the collapse of the totalitarian Soviet political model of the Soviet state, diversifi cation of public opinion and the development of political and ideological pluralism in Ukraine in 1988–1991.