La face cachée de la Révolution orange

L'Ukraine et le déni de son problème régional

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ID11979150
AuthorsDominique Arel (University of Ottawa, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume37
Issue4
Pages11-48
Publication date2006-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0338-0599 • E-ISSN: 2259-6100
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/receo.2006.1788
OpenAlexW1980509124
LanguageFR
Citations received12

The Orange Revolution's hidden face: Ukraine and the denial of its regional problem The 2004 Orange Revolution, an unprecedented popular mobilization against the falsification of presidential election results, revealed an important regional cleavage between a Centre-West massively in favor of the challenger, Viktor Yushchenko, and a South-East no less massively supporting the regime's candidate, Viktor Yanukovych. The 2006 parliamentary elections reproduced this geographic polarization. This division is caused by identity rather than economic factors, but only if non-traditional categories are used to examine ethnicity or language. The consolidation over many generations of a bi-ethnic structure in the South-East, the use of language as a symbol of a regional perspective anchored in history, and the aims of elites for inclusion in, rather than separation from, central politics are factors that help us better grasp the regional dimension that the Orange elite tends to deny

Elite · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Frontier · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Law · Political and Social Issues · Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics

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