IS UKRAINE A POLITICAL COMMUNITY

The effects of divergent historical experiences, of differential expos ure to the world outside the former Soviet Union, and of divergent ind ustrial structure-all point in the direction of enormous attitudinal a nd evaluative cleavages across the regions of Ukraine, When we compare regional differences in perspectives on the political economy in Ukra ine and views about whether Russia and Ukraine should be separate stat es, these differences are readily discernible. By extending the scope of items examined and by making explicit comparisons between data from Ukrainian and Russian samples, however, we achieve a somewhat more op timistic view about the prospects for community building in Ukraine, T he relatively consensual assessment of citizenship conditions and the wide range of foreign policy matters about which dispositions of Ukrai nians are separable from those of persons from regions reported in thi s paper provide some evidence of an emerging Ukranian political commun ity. (C) 1998 The Regents of the University of California. Published b y Elsevier Science Ltd.