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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463973103321

Titolo

Aspects of the orange revolution . III The context and dynamics of the 2004 Ukrainian Presidential Elections. / / Ingmar Bredies, Andreas Umland and Valentin Yakushik (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart : , : Ibidem Verlag, , 2012

ISBN

3-8382-5803-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society

Disciplina

947.7086

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Ukraine History Orange Revolution, 2004

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Approaches to a �Watershed� in Ukrainian Politics""; ""1 Prelude to a Mass Rebellion""; ""Fraud before the �Revolution�: Special Precincts in Ukraine's 2002 Parliamentary Election""; ""2 Why and How It Happened""; ""Orange Ukraine Chooses the West, but Without the East""; ""Regional Political Cleavages, Electoral Behavior, and Historical Legacies in Post-Communist Ukraine""; ""Shades of Orange: The Electoral Geography of Ukraine�s 2004 Presidential Elections""; ""3 The Context of a Mass Uprising""

""The Legal Evolution behind the Orange Revolution""""The Cyberpolitics of Music in Ukraine�s 2004 Orange Revolution""; ""Foreign Intervention in the 2004 Elections: �Political Technology� versus NGOs""

Sommario/riassunto

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 becom