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 become the new President of a socially geographically and culturally
divided country? 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? Erik S.
Herron Paul E. Johnson Dominique Arel Ivan Katchanovski Ralph S. Clem Peter R. Craumer
Hartmut Rank Stephan Heidenhain Adriana Helbig and Andrew Wilson present a multifarious
panorama of the origins and dynamics of the processes that changed the nature of political and
civic life during and between the three rounds of Ukraine's fateful 2004 presidential
elections.
