The Category “Sobornist’ of Ukraine” as a Fractal

Authors

  • Ivan Monolatii Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31861/mhpi2023.47.313-325

Keywords:

fractal, category, sobornist, statelessness, national statehood, fractal dimensions, regionalism, Ukraine

Abstract

This article convinced a thesis that the fractal manifestation is also the category sobornist’ (“congregation”). Its fractal nature, firstly, expands the specificity of this imaginary idea of the Ukrainian nation, and secondly, it makes it possible to highlight and structure certain nation-building codes as a system of expectations that function in the Ukrainian “congregational” space. The proposed vision is that the properties of fractals as an objective process vary from clear regularity to chaos, the category of “orderliness” as a fractal demonstrates, on the one hand, the borderline “zone of chaos” (statelessness) and, on the other hand, the formation of “order with chaos” (national statehood). The category sobornist’ of in its institutional and structural dimension in Galicia in the middle of the 19th – the first half of the 20th century. can generally correspond to the Sierpinski triangle. Given the self-similarity of the institutions of Ukrainian sobornist’ in the 19th and 20th centuries, it is worth considering Serpinsky’s carpet, which to a greater extent corresponds to the fractal dimension of the phenomenon under study. The Ukrainian cathedral is interpreted as a mutually unambiguous and continuous reflection (from the point of view of Serpinsky’s carpet theory), and therefore its structures are topologically identical (the Main Russian Council of 1848 in Lviv, the Main Ukrainian Council of 1914 in Lviv, the Ukrainian National Council of 1918 in Lviv , the Ukrainian National Council of 1941–1942 in Lviv, the Ukrainian National Council in Kyiv in 1941, the Ukrainian National Council of 1948–1992 in the system of the state center of the Ukrainian People’s Republic in exile). The category sobornist’ in its fractal dimension is also partly an illustration of Nasim Taleb’s theory of antifragility.

Author Biography

Ivan Monolatii, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Department of Politology

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Published

2023-06-15

How to Cite

Monolatii, I. (2023). The Category “Sobornist’ of Ukraine” as a Fractal. Modern Historical and Political Issues, (47), 313–325. https://doi.org/10.31861/mhpi2023.47.313-325