On some controversial issues on the history of the state since the Hetmanate B. Khmelnitsky

The article deals with the origins of controversial issues, the experience of the Cossack republic in the National-War of 1648–1654, methods of forming the supreme bodies of state power and of their relationship and the degree of participation of the people in their formation, a system of methods and techniques of state power in the liberated territory.

Cossack republic Getmanshina, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, the supreme bodies of state power, the General Cossack glad, political autonomy, independent Cossack state, the political system, form of government, public-legal regime, monarchism, authoritarianism