Ukraine's 2004 presidential election was falsified spurring the Orange Revolution. To many
observers the Orange Revolution was a shock and the stolen elections a recent development.
However both the election fraud and the effort to topple the government of Leonid Kuchma
emerged from political dynamics that had appeared in earlier Ukrainian elections. In this path
breaking volume leading scholars place Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution in the longer
perspective of Ukraine's post-Soviet electoral politics. Covering both presidential and
parliamentary elec-tions over the entire post-Soviet period the chapters clarify the man-ner
in which earlier elections had emerged as part of the battle for power in Ukraine well before
2004. The opposition that came to power in 2004 had also won the 2002 elections and had
developed its strategies during opposition protests that had been catalyzed by the Kuchmagate
crisis in 2000. The evolution of the dynamics that led to the fraudulent 2004 election reveals
that the events of 2004 represented continuity as well as change. By placing the 2004 elections
within a longer trajectory the volume enriches our understanding of the Orange Revolution and
helps us to understand the difficulties faced in consolidating Ukraine's democratic
breakthrough following the Orange Revolution. The volume contains an introduction to Aspects of
the Orange Revo-lution I-VI by Andreas Umland followed by eight chapters by Robert K.
Christensen Edward R. Rakhimkulov and Charles Wise Paul D'Anieri Robert Kravchuk and Victor
Chudowsky Paul Kubicek Taras Kuzio Lucan Way and Anna Makhorkina. These authors bring
complex and varied perspectives that situate Ukraine's post-Soviet elections in economic
reforms constitutional law foreign policy objectives of integrating into Europe as well as
in the broader context of the rough and tumble competition for political control of Ukraine
