Volume 52, Number 7 · April 28, 2005
The Orange Revolution
By Timothy Garton Ash, Timothy Snyder
Observers have placed Ukraine's 'orange revolution' in a sequence of peaceful democratic revolutions stretching from the 'velvet revolutions' of 1989 in Central Europe, through the 'rose revolution' in Georgia in 2003, to what some are already calling the 'cedar revolution' in Lebanon. Many Ukrainians are understandably delighted by this attractive labeling, so different from the largely negative or nonexistent image they have had in the past. Yet we must look beyond the news headlines to discover how and why this change has come about, and what its consequences may be.
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