Subject: Squeezing the Orange Revolution: New Carnegie Book edited by Anders Aslund and Michael McFaul
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006
From: "Jennifer Linker" <jlinker@carnegieendowment.org>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 03/06/06
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Squeezing the Orange Revolution
New Carnegie Book from Åslund and McFaul Exposes the Riveting Tale
As Ukrainians prepare to go to the polls for parliamentary elections at the end of March, a new book edited by Anders Åslund and Michael McFaul identifies the driving factors and political implications of the Ukrainian Orange Revolution. Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine’s Democratic Breakthrough, is a pioneering effort to describe and explain the events up to and through December 2004.
Few predicted or anticipated such a dramatic breakthrough in Ukraine, the effects of which have already been felt from Kyrgyzstan to Lebanon and are likely to travel further. This is a path breaking collection of essays by authors who had on-the-ground experience interacting with the various Ukrainian, Western, and Russian personalities of the Orange Revolution. Inside the book is a colorful, detailed visual aid to follow “Who’s Who” and the revolution’s intricate chronology.
This group of scholars, specialists, and journalists portray a riveting tale of rigged elections, mass demonstrations and foreign interference, all from a unique, insiders’ perspective. Contributors include: Pavol Demes and Joerg Forbrig (German Marshall Fund), Nadia Diuk (National Endowment for Democracy), Adrian Karatnycky (Freedom House), Taras Kuzio (George Washington University), Nikolai Petrov and Andrei Ryabov (Carnegie Moscow Center), Olena Prytula (Ukrainskaya pravda), and Oleksandr Sushko and Olena Prystayko (Center for Peace, Conversion, and Foreign Policy of Ukraine).
Anders Åslund is a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics, and the former director of the Russian & Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment. He is an internationally recognized specialist on Ukraine and postcommunist economic transformation.
Michael McFaul is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment and an associate professor of political science at Stanford University. He is a leading specialist on democracy development in the former Soviet states. He is coauthor of Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Post-Communist Political Reform (Carnegie Endowment, 2004).
Visit www.CarnegieEndowment.org/RevolutionInOrange for free excerpts and ordering information.
March 2006, 224 pp.
Paper: 0-87003-221-6, $16.95
Cloth: 0-87003-224-4, $33.95.