Imaginative nature of the phenomenology of the orange revolution in Ukraine

The article deals with the problem of an orange revolution, a phenomenon that creates a kind of system of values and priorities, acquires its own ideology and mythology, and is perceived as national and having a mass social base. The authors consider orange revolution and others like that, as an upheaval of cultural properties, as the experience of mass identification changes. The authors examine these new values through the prism of imaginative absolute that contributes to the birth of a little bit of other people, becoming a new national consciousness, which contributes to an imaginary unity. The authors also note that this process is accompanied by a large-scale artificial rupture of established notions about the historical continuum and creates the conditions for the progress of fascist ideas and movements in Ukraine. The crisis of the orange revolution in Ukraine thus is outlined not only among numerous fiasco in the sphere of practical transformation of socio-political and economic infrastructure of the society, but in the dominance of irrational, filling mass consciousness, and worship of destructive values.