AUTHOR:
Anatoliy Romanyuk
ABSTRACT:
Evolution of the Vse-Ukrainske Obiednannia (hereinafter VO) “Svoboda” (the All-Ukrainian Union “Freedom”) has been traced back; special attention has been paid to the issues of the leader in the organizational structure and the state of inner-party democracy. A high level of centralization and leadership format in the structure of the party has been justified. On the basis of the analysis of the party documents the ideological positioning of the party in the context of such variables as: radicalism, left-right positioning has been determined. It has been proved that the AU “Svoboda” most fully correspond to the parameters of radical and national ideology, combining left and right approaches with populism as an integral element.
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