Ukraine’s 2004 presidential election was falsified, spurring the Orange Revolution. To many observers, the Orange Revolution was a shock, and the stolen elections a recent development. However, both the election fraud and the effort to topple the government of Leonid Kuchma emerged from political dynamics that had appeared in earlier Ukrainian elections.
In this path breaking volume, leading scholars place Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution in the longer perspective of Ukraine’s post-Soviet electoral politics. Covering both presidential and parliamentary elec-tions over the entire post-Soviet period, the chapters clarify the man-ner in which earlier elections had emerged as part of the battle for power in Ukraine well before 2004. The opposition that came to power in 2004 had also won the 2002 elections and had developed its strategies during opposition protests that had been catalyzed by the Kuchmagate crisis in 2000. The evolution of the dynamics that led to the fraudulent 2004 election reveals that the events of 2004 represented continuity as well as change. By placing the 2004 elections within a longer trajectory, the volume enriches our understanding of the Orange Revolution and helps us to understand the difficulties faced in consolidating Ukraine’s democratic breakthrough following the Orange Revolution.
The volume contains an introduction to Aspects of the Orange Revo-lution I-VI by Andreas Umland followed by eight chapters by Robert K. Christensen, Edward R. Rakhimkulov and Charles Wise, Paul D’Anieri, Robert Kravchuk and Victor Chudowsky, Paul Kubicek, Taras Kuzio, Lucan Way, and Anna Makhorkina. These authors bring complex and varied perspectives that situate Ukraine’s post-Soviet elections in economic reforms, constitutional law, foreign policy objectives of integrating into Europe, as well as in the broader context of the rough and tumble competition for political control of Ukraine
Paul D'Anieri
Dr Paul D'Anieri is Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the University of California at Riverside.
Taras Kuzio
Taras Kuzio is Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. He is the author and editor of 22 books, including Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War (Routledge 2022), The Sources of Russia's Great Power Politics (E-IR 2018, with Paul D’Anieri), Putin’s War Against Ukraine (University of Toronto 2019), Ukraine: Democratization, Corruption and the New Russian Imperialism (Praeger 2015), Democratic Revolution in Ukraine (Routledge 2009), Ukraine – Crimea – Russia (ibidem 2007), and Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Nationalism (ibidem 2007).
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Edited by | Paul D'Anieri, Taras Kuzio |
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250
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Publication date |
01.02.2014
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
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Language |
English
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PDF
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Digital download
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Digital Rights Management - Watermark
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978-3-8382-5698-6
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