THE RULING ELITE AND THE MASSES RUTHENIA: THE ORIGINS AND IMPLICATIONS OF CONFLICT IN THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SPHERE, OR WHY UKRAINE IS NOT ABLE TO DIGEST THE LESSONS OF HISTORY

The article deals with the origins and the consequences of breaking the historically develops in the Ukrainian society of civil consensus between the ruling elite and the people, analyzed the historical background and causes of the crisis of political, economic and social public and government relations, leading to a sharp deterioration of the complex contradictions within the ruling Ukrainian elite, between the elite and the people and between the elites of different countries.