Ukrainian view of the past and future of post-Soviet states. Russia's military aggression against Ukraine drew a line under the long existence of a large geopolitical and socio-cultural space, which was called "post-Soviet". The proposed book presents the author's version of the genesis of the Ukrainian Republic within the process of the first (Soviet) and second (post-Soviet) Transformation, its place and role in the present and possible future options for organizing the global world order.