The Fateful Nature of State-Building Projects

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Dr. Vladimir Skvorets

Abstract

The article delves into an examination of pivotal state-building initiatives that have significantly shaped societal trajectories. The clash between the February project (Provisional Government) and the October project (Soviets) emerged as a decisive determinant in steering the socio-political course within the former Russian Empire in 1917. The confrontation between the anti-Soviet endeavor and the Soviet undertaking ultimately contributed to the demise of the USSR and the Soviet system. In the contemporary context of swift social dynamics and emerging threats, safeguarding the stability and coherence of societies and nations necessitates the formulation of a novel realm of social understanding. This is proposed to be encompassed under the scholarly discipline of "Theory of Fate Analytics of Societies, Peoples, and States." 


DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61439/SYXF1509

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Author Biography

Dr. Vladimir Skvorets, Zaporizhzhia National University

Doctor of Philosophy, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Sociology at Zaporizhzhia National University. Academician of the European Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Member of the Sociological Association of Ukraine. He is an author of 127 scientific and methodological publications, among them 3 monographs (one of them is collective), 7 manuals. He cooperates with representatives of public organizations that are engaged in the development of the debate movement in Ukraine (NGO "New Vision", Dnipro, "IDEA" and others).

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