Crossroads Digest 2/2007

A widespread interpretation of events in Ukraine in November-December 2004 is reflected upon in this article. The author uses the category of revolution to offer an alternative explanation of the events applying transitology that, in the author’s opinion, gives an opportunity to more correctly define the essence of these events as a stage of democratic transit. “The Orange Revolution” in the Ukrainian Public Political Discourse. A sharp rise in the political participation of Ukraine citizens in the last period of presidential election campaign in 2004, confrontation between the authorities and the opposition supported by hundreds of thousands of citizens with the epicenter of events in Independence Square in Kiev, the recognition by the Supreme Court of Ukraine of the second round of presidential elections void, the setting of the repeat voting and the victory of the oppositional candidate V. Yushchenko have already firmly established themselves in the consciousness of the majority of Ukrainians as “the Orange Revolution”.

• Месца выхаду: Vilnius
• Дата выхаду: 2007
• Рэдактар: Bobkov Igor
• Выдавец: European Humanities University, Center for Advanced Studies and Education (CASE), the project «Social Transformations in the Border­land: Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova»
• Copyright: © 2007 by European Humanities University, Center for Advanced Studies and Education (CASE)
• Кнігазбор: Kamunikat.org
• Дадатковая даведка: Scientific Council: Anatoliy Mikhailov (Belarus), Doctor of Philosophy, Natalka Chernysh (Ukraine), Doctor of Social Sciences, Yaroslav Gritsak (Ukraine), Doctor of History, Virgiliu Birladyanu (Moldova), Doctor of History, Dmitri Karev (Belarus), Doctor of History, Dimitru Moldovan (Moldova), Doctor of Economy; EHU expresses its sincere gratitude for assistance and financial support of the project to Carnegie Cor­poration, New York.