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Overview"In Ukraine's presidential elections of 2004, the establishment candidate Viktor Yanukovych had the advantages of a solid regional base, access to administrative resources, dominance in the media, help by Russian spin-doctors, and support of Moscow. Yet the winner was the pro-Western challenger, Viktor Yushchenko. 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? In this volume, scholars from two continents examine various aspects of the elections that turned into the Orange Revolution focusing on electoral campaigns and attempts to manipulate results. Following the editor's scene-setting chapter which looks at the electoral laws and their consequences in the previous decade's elections, presidential and parliamentary, the contributors take up specific features of the 2004 contest. The critical part played by a single independent television channel is analyzed by Marta Dyczok. Ilya Khineyko reviews the coverage of the elections in the Russian press, favorable to Yanukovych and always looking for parallels between Russia and Ukraine as well as keeping in mind Moscow's interests. The myths and stereotypes of the campaign are taken up in two contributions by Lyudmyla Pavlyuk and Olena Yatsunska. Clearly, constructed images often overshadowed real issues. Valerii Polkonsky's essay exposes the linguistic innovations of the campaign, including the irony and humour unleashed by such incidents as the ""egg attack"" on Yanukovych. In Kerstin Zimmer's final paper, the machine politics, administrative resources and fraud which had worked so well in Donets'k are shown to have been less than successful on the national level for reasons of scale and impersonality." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bohdan Harasymiw , Oleh S Ilnytzkyj , Andreas UmlandPublisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Imprint: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Volume: 64 Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.370kg ISBN: 9783898216999ISBN 10: 3898216993 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 22 November 2007 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Language: English Table of ContentsContributors Introduction, by Bohdan Harasymiw Elections in Post-Communist Ukraine, 1994-2004: An Overview, by Bohdan Harasymiw Breaking Through the Information Blockade: Election and Revolution in Ukraine 2004, by Marta Dyczok The View from Russia: Russian Press Coverage of the 2004 Presidential Elections in Ukraine, by Ilya Khineyko Extreme Rhetoric in the 2004 Presidential Campaign: Images of Geopolitical and Regional Division, by Lyudmyla Pavlyuk The Language of the Presidential Election Campaign in Ukraine, by Valerii Polkovsky Image Myths in the 2004 Ukrainian Presidential Election Campaign, by Olena Yatsunska The Comparative Failure of Machine Politics, Administrative Resources and Fraud, by Kerstin ZimmerReviewsThese 45 papers and supplemental election reports provide an excellent overview of the Ukrainian 2004 events as well as their historical and political context. Uwe Dathe, Osteuropa These two volumes are a timely and welcome addition to the field of democratization and electoral studies. It is a brilliant systematization of the factors that eventually contributed to the Orange Revolution. The authors offer a masterful account of various topics and their combined contributions should be welcomed as a step beyond earlier analyses (which unfortunately often stood alone) of what happened in Ukraine since 1991. Oleksandr Svyetlov, Heinrich Heine University The multiple editors of the six-volume series of 'The Aspects of the Orange Revolution' [...] put together an exceptional publication that paints a multi-faced canvas of the factors, the proceedings, as well as the consequences of the Orange Revolution. [...] a perfect example of a multidisciplinary approach to the analysis of the intricacies of Ukrainian politics [...] Yuliya Zabyelina, University of Trento Author InformationDr. Bohdan Harasymiw is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Calgary, Canada. Dr. Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj is Professor of Ukrainian Culture, Language and Literature at the University of Alberta, Canada. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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