Abstract

The interconnection and interdependence between the processes of political regime consolidation and construction of identity on macro level in transforming societies have become the main focus or this article. Basing on the analysis of transitological conceptions, it has been defied that collective identity of community is the essential source of social, political and institutional changes, its’ comprehension and, hence, its legitimization. It defies the course of institutional reforms, it effectiveness and democratic or authoritarian consolidation as a result. The crisis of Ukrainian identity in post-communist period defies social and political transformations and has negative inflence on regime consolidation. We have determined some negative factors for the consolidation of society and formation of the identity of Ukrainian community, such as: 1) weakness of Ukrainian state; 2) fragmentation of political elite, its orientation on short-term corporate goals; 3) profound external information inflence, mainly on the part of Russian Federation, that is accompanied by an aggressive imposition of an idea of «Russian World», «Slavic brotherhood», a denial of national identity of Ukrainian people, its language and culture; 4) incompleteness of unifid values system; 5) insuffiient development of social identity as common matrix for the development of other levels. At the same time some positive tendencies have not remained unnoticed, which form the fertile ground for the formation of Ukrainian nation according to corresponding identifiation markers: 1) clear delineation and formation of the image of the alien, caused by Russian aggression; 2) a choice of the majority of the country in favor of EU. The formation of supranational level of identity, as a feeling of belonging to a wider civilization community, is essential for the developing societies, which experience certain problems of self identifiation.