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Ukraine's Orange Revolution is a breath-taking example of epic political battles with charismatic heroes and anti-heroes surrounded by massive demonstrations and the plenty of pretentious incidents of poisoning, kidnapping, contract killings, and the numerous acts of other official intimidation and media deception. The Orange Revolution if juxtaposed with other recent political coup d’états of colors and symbols, such as Georgia’s Rose Revolution, or the Velvet Revolution in the former Czechoslovakia, outshines the rest, having become the brightest example of a peaceful political upheaval over the past few years of transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. Indeed, the electoral triumph of Yuschenko’s bloc over the country’s corrupt leadership represented a new landmark in the post-communist history of post-Soviet states. The multiple editors of the six-volume series of The Aspects of the Orange Revolution published by ibidem Publishers primarily coming from the Western academic environment put together an exceptional publication that paints a multi-faced canvas of the factors, the proceedings, as well as the consequences of the Orange Revolution. Not only do the volumes discuss the ‘democratic’ nature of the revolution, namely, electoral fraud, human rights violations, legal reformation, but also observe other, seemingly detrimental, but intrinsically essential for understanding of this phenomenon issues of national identity, polarization, and cultural divergence. The volumes draw upon an extensive methodological variety of qualitative and quantitative research techniques, fieldwork and participant observations conducted by both established and young social scientists coming from a variety of academic backgrounds of political science, electoral studies, jurisprudence, communication studies, history, linguistics, and musicology.
Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
Aspects of the Orange Revolution III: The Context and Dynamics of the 2004 Ukrainian Presidential Elections (Stuttgart & Hannover: ibidem-Verlag 2007)2007 •
The third volume of Aspects of the Orange Revolution complements the essays of the first two collections providing further historical background on, and analytical insight into, the events at Kyiv in late 2004. Its seven contributions by both established and younger specialists range from electoral statistics to musicology, and deal with, among other issues, such questions as: Why had blatant election fraud not generated mass protest before 2004, but, in that year, did? How was Viktor Yushchenko able to collect enough votes to defeat the establishment candidate Viktor Yanukovych, and become the new President of a socially, geographically and culturally divided country? How was it possible to prevent large-scale violence, and which role did the judiciary play during the quasi-revolutionary events in autumn-winter 2004? What legal foundations and court decisions made the repetition of the second round of the presidential elections possible? Which campaign instruments, and political 'technologies' were applied by various domestic and foreign actors to activate the Ukrainian population? How did the internet and music become factors in the emergence of mass protests involving hundreds of thousands of people? To which degree and how did external influences affect the Orange Revolution? Erik S. Herron, Paul E. Johnson, Dominique Arel, Ivan Katchanovski, Ralph S. Clem, Peter R. Craumer, Hartmut Rank, Stephan Heidenhain, Adriana Helbig and Andrew Wilson present a multifarious panorama of the origins and dynamics of the processes that changed the nature of political and civic life during and between the three rounds of Ukraine's fateful 2004 presidential elections. CONTENTS: "Approaches to a 'Watershed' in Ukrainian Politics" by Ingmar Bredies, Andreas Umland and Valentin Yakushik; "Fraud before the 'Revolution': Special Precincts in Ukraine's 2002 Parliamentary Election" by Erik S. Herron and Paul E. Johnson; "Orange Ukraine Chooses the West, but Without the East" by Dominique Arel; "Regional Political Cleavages, Electoral Behavior, and Historical Legacies in Post-Communist Ukraine" by Ivan Katchanovski; "Shades of Orange: The Electoral Geography of Ukraine's 2004 Presidential Elections" by Ralph S. Clem and Peter R. Craumer; "The Legal Evolution behind the Orange Revolution" by Hartmut Rank and Stephan Heidenhain; "The Cyberpolitics of Music in Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution" by Adriana Helbig; "Foreign Intervention in the 2004 Elections: 'Political Technology' versus NGOs" by Andrew Wilson.
St Antony's International Review (vol 2, no 2)
book review, Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough (Aslund and McFaul, eds.)2007 •
Revolution in Orange sketches the multi-faceted background of the 'Orange Revolution' protests during the Kyiv winter of 2004-2005. On the whole, 'Revolution in Orange' is critical and personal, yet at times gushing; it is detailed and well documented yet slightly nostalgic. By contrast, Andrew Wilson's 'Ukraine's Orange Revolution' fully airs the dirty laundry, including transcripts of conspiring election officials as well as someone ('probably' Kuchma) caught on covert recordings.
European Humanities University Center for Advanced …
“orange revolution” in ukraine: transitological interpretation2007 •
The article discusses Ukraine's "orange revolution" of 2004 as an unsuccessful attempt at democratization. Ukraine's ethnic politics, political corruption and institutional path dependency are being singled out as primary factors responsible for the failure of democratic reforms.
Nationalities Papers
The “Orange Revolution” and the “Sacred” Birth of a Civic-republican Ukrainian Nation2013 •
The article analyzes the “sacred” dimension of the Ukrainian “Orange revolution”, its festive or carnivalesque quality, and properties of a communal ritual. The author argues that Ukrainian citizens who protested against the stolen elections in Kyiv found themselves in the liminoid situation of temporary egalitarian utopianism. This situation resulted in the emergence of communitas, and engendered a powerful feeling of the birth of a civic-republican Ukrainian nation. The festive nature of the “Orange revolution”, sanctioned by the overwhelming confidence in fighting for the rightful democratic cause, reinforced the impression of renewing the society along Western liberal democratic patterns.
2008 •
Have there been changes in political institutions, parties, leaders, and regional political orientations in Ukraine after the "Orange Revolution"? If so, are the changes revolutionary or evolutionary? Most previous studies refer to the 2004 presidential elections and mass protest actions as a revolution. To test this claim, this article analyzes political changes in Ukraine. Survey data are used to compare changes in pro-Russian and pro-Western orientation, support for major parties in the 2002, 2006, and 2007 parliamentary elections, and support for leading presidential candidates since the 2004 presidential elections. The implications of these changes for development of democracy in Ukraine are also considered.
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