Book Launch: ASPECTS OF THE ORANGE REVOLUTION (6 vols.), Kiev, 4 June 2008
The official launch of Aspects of the Orange Revolution I-VI (Stuttgart & Hannover: ibidem-Verlag, 2007) followed by a small reception will take place at the Goethe Institute of Kyiv, Ukraine, on June 4th, 2008, at 7-9 p.m. Everybody interested is invited! See http://www.goethe.de/ins/ua/kie/deindex.htm.
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Ingmar Bredies, Paul D’Anieri, Bohdan Harasymiw, Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj, Taras Kuzio, Andreas Umland, Valentin Yakushik (eds.)
Aspects of the Orange Revolution I-VI
Stuttgart & Hannover: ibidem-Verlag, 2007
1474 pages (six volumes)
=Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, vols. 63-68
ISSN 1614-3515
www.ibidem-verlag.com/epages/61235722.sf/en_US/?ViewAction=View&ObjectID=1499902&Page=7
www.amazon.de/ukrainische-quot-Orange-Revolution-2004/lm/R3DXTX1KW07S07/
In these six volumes, both established and younger scholars place Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution in the longer perspective of Ukraine’s post-Soviet electoral politics as wells within a comparative framework. The volumes draw upon extensive field research and participant observations by various social scientists specializing in democratization, regime politics, political transitions, electoral studies, and the post-communist world.
Among the questions the volumes try answer are: 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 did Ukrainian voters break through the barrage of propaganda so as to deliver their ultimate verdict? Was the divide between Eastern and Western Ukraine fact or PR fiction? 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?
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