Ukraine’s Orange Revolution: Kuchma’s Failed Authoritarianism

Issue Date April 2005
Volume 16
Issue 2
Page Numbers 131-45
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Desperate to secure victory for its own candidate in the 2004 presidential election, the incumbent regime undertook an unprecedented campaign of blatant election fraud. But it had underestimated the citizenry that it was trying to deceive.