Democratic Revolution in Ukraine

In 2000 a beheaded journalist was found in a remote forest near Kyiv. The corpse led to a scandal when it was revealed that it was that of a journalist critical of the authorities. The President was heard on tapes made covertly in his office ordering violence to be undertaken against the journalist. The scandal led to the creation of a wide protest movement that culminated in the victory of democratic opposition parties in 2002. The democratic opposition, led by its presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, fought a bitter and fraudulent election campaign in 2004 during which he was poisoned.Widespread election fraud led to Europe's largest protest movement since the Cold War which became known as the Orange Revolution, known after the campaign color of the democratic opposition. This book is the first to provide a collection of studies surveying different aspects of the rise of the Ukraine's democratic opposition from marginalization, to protest against presidential abuse of office and culminating in the Orange Revolution. It integrates the Kuchmagate crisis of 2000-2001 with that of the Orange Revolution four years later providing a rich, detailed and original study of the origins of the Orange Revolution. This book was published as a special issue of the "Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics".

ISBN 0415441412   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780415441414 (What's this?)   Pages 198 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Volumes 001 Imprint Routledge   Weight (grammes) 381 Format Hardback   Published in London Publication date 27 Apr 2009   Height (mm) 138 Library of Congress DK   Width (mm) 216 DEWEY 947.7086   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Introduction by Taras Kuzio		1
1		Ethnic Tensions and State Strategies: Understanding the Survival of the Ukrainian State by Paul D'Anieri		5
2		Oligarchs, Tapes and Oranges: 'Kuchmagate' to the Orange Revolution by Taras Kuzio		31
3		State Institutions, Political Context and Parliamentary Election Legislation in Ukraine, 2000 - 2006 by Erik S. Herron		58
4		Revolutionary Bargain: The Unmaking of Ukraine's Autocracy through Pacting by Serhiy Kudelia		78
5		Patriotism, Order and Articulations of the Nation in Kyiv High Schools Before and After the Orange Revolution by Anna Fournier		102
6		Rock, Pop and Politics in Ukraine's 2004 Presidential Campaign and Orange Revolution by Bohdan Klid		119
7		Anti-Orange Discourses in Ukraine's Internet: Before the Orange Split by Olga Filippova		139
8		Gender and the Orange Revolution by Alexandra Hrycak		153
		Index		181

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