Revolutionary and military crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding practices of social political activism (based on the Ukraine’s example of 2014-2016)

The article analyzes the experience of Ukraine in the use of social and political crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding. These technologies are studied in the time period of 2013-2016 on the example of their application for the Revolution of Dignity and maintaining the country’s defensive capacity in the course of the undeclared hybrid war with Russia. It is emphasized that it is through public initiatives that the vector of the state to its democratization and Euro-Atlantic cooperation has been modified. It is noted that the projects based on the “collective intellect” and popular investments have become an alternative to inefficient government activities to maintain the country’s defensive capacity and support the military and internally displaced people.