[From nobody Thu May 29 10:41:18 2008 Received: from zeppo.mail.uwo.pri (salk.mail.uwo.pri [172.29.32.41]) by zeppo.mail.uwo.pri (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-5.02 (built Oct 12 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0K1M0080NF07P8G0@zeppo.mail.uwo.pri> for mdyczok@uwo.ca; Thu, 29 May 2008 04:16:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from swamp.mail.uwo.pri ([172.29.36.41]) by zeppo.mail.uwo.pri (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-5.02 (built Oct 12 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTPS id <0K1M00ITFF07R3C0@zeppo.mail.uwo.pri> for mdyczok@uwo.ca (ORCPT mdyczok@uwo.ca); Thu, 29 May 2008 04:16:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web58703.mail.re1.yahoo.com (web58703.mail.re1.yahoo.com [66.196.100.125]) by swamp.mail.uwo.pri (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id m4T8Gt2d009431 for <mdyczok@uwo.ca>; Thu, 29 May 2008 04:16:55 -0400 Received: (qmail 17559 invoked by uid 60001); Thu, 29 May 2008 08:16:55 +0000 Received: from [77.123.126.206] by web58703.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 29 May 2008 01:16:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 01:16:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Andreas Umland <andreumland@yahoo.com> Subject: Book Launch "Aspects of the Orange Revolution I-VI," 4 June 2008, 7 p.m., Goethe-Institute at Kyiv To: undisclosed recipients: ; Reply-to: andreumland@yahoo.com Message-id: <342499.15250.qm@web58703.mail.re1.yahoo.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.199 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=YQIhwkM2i6IO6zEXeGa4LQo5IuvFR8z6z1G4KYrJnQnjD53Ow+2Dd/iHG0h/dxUVO4yqAS8O3B3ufp02ub4vwwyhfU8AeaRwaX+ibjyg6sbLGJI+pn45zYhwS0GmEgCFMp94w1FoWmLS2PC9Dag5xeBisHNcRshGUnjdQMzDW/A=; X-Spam-Score: undef - yahoo.com is whitelisted. X-CanItPRO-Stream: mdyczok (inherits from default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 17673537 - b4ce20bf7666 X-Antispam-Training-Forget: https://spamtrap.uwo.ca/canit/b.php?i=17673537&m=b4ce20bf7666&c=f X-Antispam-Training-Nonspam: https://spamtrap.uwo.ca/canit/b.php?i=17673537&m=b4ce20bf7666&c=n X-Antispam-Training-Spam: https://spamtrap.uwo.ca/canit/b.php?i=17673537&m=b4ce20bf7666&c=s X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 172.29.36.41 INVITATION AND REQUEST TO SPREAD THE WORD Dear Sir or Madam,=20 may I ask whether it might be possible for you to announce via your publica= tion forum and/or mailing list the following English language event at Kyiv= 's Goethe-Institute next week? Book Launch (in English) of=20 "Aspects of the Orange Revolution I-VI" 6 volumes (1474 pages) Stuttgart/Hannover: ibidem-Verlag, 2007 on 4 June 2008 (Wednesday), 7 p.m.=20 at the Goethe-Institute of Kyiv, vul. Volos'ka, 12/4=20 in Ukrainian: http://www.goethe.de/ins/ua/kie/uk3335535v.htm in German: http://www.goethe.de/ins/ua/kie/de3335535v.htm No pre-registration necessary. Everybody interested is in invited. Below, there is some more information on the books that will be presented. With thanks and kind regards,=20 Dr. Andreas Umland DAAD Lecturer in German Studies National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv -------------------- [Feel free to forward.]=20 Ingmar Bredies, Paul D'Anieri, Bohdan Harasymiw, Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj, Taras K= uzio, Andreas Umland, Valentin Yakushik (eds.) Aspects of the Orange Revolution I-VI Stuttgart & Hannover: ibidem-Verlag, 2007 1474 pages (six volumes) =3DSoviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, vols. 63-68 ISSN 1614-3515 http://www.ibidem-verlag.com/epages/61235722.sf/en_US/?ViewAction=3DView&Ob= jectID=3D1499902&Page=3D7 http://www.amazon.de/ukrainische-quot-Orange-Revolution-2004/lm/R3DXTX1KW07= S07/ Ukraine=E2=80=99s 2004 presidential election was falsified, spurring the Or= ange Revolution. To many observers, the Orange Revolution was a shock, and = the stolen elections a recent development. However, both the election fraud= and the effort to topple the government of Leonid Kuchma emerged from poli= tical dynamics that had appeared in earlier Ukrainian elections. In these six volumes, both established and younger scholars place Ukraine= =E2=80=99s 2004 Orange Revolution in the longer perspective of Ukraine=E2= =80=99s post-Soviet electoral politics as wells within a comparative framew= ork. The volumes draw upon extensive field research and participant observa= tions by various social scientists specializing in democratization, regime = politics, political transitions, electoral studies, and the post-communist = world. Among the questions the volumes try answer are: Why had blatant election fr= aud 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, g= eographically and culturally divided country? How did Ukrainian voters brea= k through the barrage of propaganda so as to deliver their ultimate verdict= ? Was the divide between Eastern and Western Ukraine fact or PR fiction? Ho= w was it possible to prevent large-scale violence, and which role did the j= udiciary play during the quasi-revolutionary events in autumn-winter 2004? = What legal foundations and court decisions made the repetition of the secon= d round of the presidential elections possible? Which campaign instruments,= and =E2=80=9Cpolitical technologies=E2=80=9D were applied by various domes= tic and foreign actors to activate the Ukrainian population? How did the internet and music become factors in the emergence of mass protests involv= ing hundreds of thousands of people? To which degree and how did external i= nfluences affect the Orange Revolution? Covering both presidential and parliamentary elections over the entire post= -Soviet period, the first volume clarifies the manner in which earlier elec= tions had emerged as part of the battle for power in Ukraine well before 20= 04. In the second volume, scholars from two continents examine various aspe= cts of the elections that turned into the Orange Revolution focusing on ele= ctoral campaigns and attempts to manipulate results. The third volume provi= des historical background on, and analytical insight into, the events at Ky= iv in late 2004 with contributions ranging from electoral statistics to mus= icology. The fourth volume provides, apart from scholarly analyses, first-h= and accounts that not only investigate, but also gives voice to, some of th= ose involved in the events of 2004. The fifth volume collects not all, but = some of the most widely discussed official reports on the three rounds of t= he elections, including English translations of selected sections of the reports produced by the CIS International Observers Mission. The last = volume compares the Orange Revolution to similar events in Slovakia (1998),= Croatia (1999-2000), Serbia (2000), Georgia (2003) and Kyrgyzstan (2005). = It explores different regime types and opposition strategies in post-commun= ist states, the diffusion of opposition strategies between states in which = democratic revolutions were attempted, the strategic importance of youth NG= O=E2=80=99s in mobilizing oppositions towards democratic revolutions, the u= se of non-violent strategies by the opposition, path dependent, theoretical= and comparative explanations of the sources of successful and failed democ= ratic revolutions, and the factors that lie behind divergent post-revolutio= nary trajectories. ------------------------------ THE SIX VOLUMES: D'Anieri, Paul and Kuzio, Taras (Eds.)=20 Aspects of the Orange Revolution I Democratization and Elections in Post-Communist Ukraine (=3DSoviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, vol. 63) Stuttgart & Hannover: ibidem-Verlag 250 Pages. Paperback. 2007 ISBN 978-3-89821-698-2 Book series =E2=80=9CSoviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society=E2=80=9D www.ibidem-verlag.de/spps.html ISSN 1614-3515 34.90 =E2=82=AC=20 Price incl. VAT, plus Shipping CONTENTS Introduction to =E2=80=9CAspects of the Orange Revolution I-VI=E2=80=9D: Ukraine=E2=80=99s Second Transition in the Russian Mirror Andreas Umland Democratization and Elections in Post-Communist Ukraine Ukraine=E2=80=99s 1994 Elections as an Economic Event Robert S. Kravchuk and Victor Chudowsky Regime Type and Politics in Ukraine under Kuchma Taras Kuzio Rapacious Individualism and Political Competition=20 in Ukraine, 1992-2004 Lucan A. Way The Ukrainian Orange Revolution Brought More than=20 a New President: What Kind of Democracy Will the Institutional Changes Bring? Robert K. Christensen, Edward R. Rakhimkulov, and Charles R. Wise The Last Hurrah: The 2004 Ukrainian Presidential Elections=20 and the Limits of Machine Politics Paul D=E2=80=99Anieri Ukrainian Political Parties and Foreign Policy in Election Campaigns: The Parliamentary Elections of 1998 and 2002 Anna Makhorkina The European Union and Democratization in Ukraine Paul Kubicek ORDER VIA THE WEBSITES: http://www.ibidem-verlag.com/epages/61235722.sf/en_US/?ObjectPath=3D/Shops/= 61235722/Products/978-3-89821-698-2 http://www.amazon.de/Aspects-Orange-Revolution-Democratization-Post-Communi= st/dp/3898216985/ref=3Dcm_lmf_tit_13 --------------------------------- Harasymiw, Bohdan in collaboration with Ilnytzkyj, Oleh S. (Eds.) Aspects of the Orange Revolution II Information and Manipulation Strategies in the 2004 Ukrainian Presidential = Elections (=3DSoviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, vol. 64) Stuttgart & Hannover: ibidem-Verlag 264 pages. Paperback. 2007 ISBN 978-3-89821-699-9 Book series =E2=80=9CSoviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society=E2=80=9D www.ibidem-verlag.de/spps.html ISSN 1614-3515 34.90 =E2=82=AC=20 Price incl. VAT, plus Shipping=20 CONTENTS Introduction Bohdan Harasymiw Elections in Post-Communist Ukraine, 1994-2004: An Overview Bohdan Harasymiw Breaking Through the Information Blockade: Election and Revolution in Ukraine 2004 Marta Dyczok=20 The View from Russia: Russian Press Coverage=20 of the 2004 Presidential Elections in Ukraine Ilya Khineyko Extreme Rhetoric in the 2004 Presidential Campaign:=20 Images =D0=BEf Geopolitical and Regional Division Lyudmyla Pavlyuk The Language of the Presidential Election Campaign in Ukraine Valerii Polkovsky=09 Image Myths in the 2004 Ukrainian Presidential Election Campaign Olena Yatsunska The Comparative Failure of Machine Politics, Administrative Resources and Fraud Kerstin Zimmer ORDER VIA THE WEBSITES: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3898216993/ref=3Dcm_arms_pdp_dp http://www.ibidem-verlag.com/epages/61235722.sf/en_US/?ObjectPath=3D/Shops/= 61235722/Products/978-3-89821-699-9 http://www.amazon.de/Aspects-Orange-Revolution-Manipulation-Presidential/dp= /3898216993/ref=3Dcm_lmf_tit_14 --------------------------------- Bredies, Ingmar, Umland, Andreas and Yakushik, Valentin (Eds.) Aspects of the Orange Revolution III The Context and Dynamics of the 2004 Ukrainian Presidential Elections (=3DSoviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, vol. 65) Stuttgart & Hannover: ibidem-Verlag 250 pages. Paperback. 2007 Book series =E2=80=9CSoviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society=E2=80=9D www.ibidem-verlag.de/spps.html ISBN 978-3-89821-803-0 ISSN 1614-3515 34.90 =E2=82=AC=20 Price incl. VAT, plus Shipping=20 CONTENTS Introduction Approaches to a =E2=80=98Watershed=E2=80=99 in Ukrainian Politics Ingmar Bredies, Andreas Umland and Valentin Yakushik 1 Prelude to a Mass Rebellion Fraud before the =E2=80=98Revolution=E2=80=99: Special Precincts in Ukraine's 2002 Parliamentary Election Erik S. Herron and Paul E. Johnson 2 Why and How It Happened Orange Ukraine Chooses the West, but Without the East Dominique Arel Regional Political Cleavages, Electoral Behavior, and Historical Legacies in Post-Communist Ukraine Ivan Katchanovski Shades of Orange: The Electoral Geography of Ukraine=E2=80=99s 2004 Presidential Elections Ralph S. Clem and Peter R. Craumer 3 The Context of a Mass Uprising The Legal Evolution behind the Orange Revolution Hartmut Rank and Stephan Heidenhain The Cyberpolitics of Music in Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution Adriana Helbig Foreign Intervention in the 2004 Elections: =E2=80=98Political Technology=E2=80=99 versus NGOs Andrew Wilson ORDER VIA THE WEBSITES: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3898218031/ref=3Dcm_arms_pdp_dp http://www.ibidem-verlag.com/epages/61235722.sf/en_US/?ObjectPath=3D/Shops/= 61235722/Products/978-3-89821-803-0 http://www.amazon.de/Aspects-Orange-Revolution-III-Presidential/dp/38982180= 31/ref=3Dcm_lmf_tit_15 ------------------------- Bredies, Ingmar, Umland, Andreas and Yakushik, Valentin (Eds.) Aspects of the Orange Revolution IV Foreign Assistance and Civic Action in the 2004 Ukrainian Presidential Elec= tions (=3DSoviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, vol. 66) Stuttgart & Hannover: ibidem-Verlag 244 pages. Paperback. 2007 ISBN 978-3-89821-808-5 Book series =E2=80=9CSoviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society=E2=80=9D www.ibidem-verlag.de/spps.html ISSN 1614-3515 34.90 =E2=82=AC=20 Price incl. VAT, plus Shipping=20 CONTENTS Introduction Domestic and Foreign Factors in the 2004 Ukrainian Presidential Elections Andreas Umland I Political Transition and External Forces in Post-Soviet Societies Foreign Involvement and International Orientation in the Orange Revolution Iris Kempe and Iryna Solonenko Democracy by Remote Control Vladimir Frolov The Orange Revolution=E2=80=99s Distortion of the Citizenry=E2=80=99s Will: Material for a Complaint by the Party of Regions Valentin Yakushik Trans-national Actors in Democratizing States: The Case of German Political Foundations in Ukraine Matthias Brucker=09 II Voices from the Ground: Reports by International Election Observers Ukrainians in the Mist: Gorilla Tactics in the Campaign for Ukraine's Highest Office Jake Rudnitsky Prelude to a Revolution: Reflections on Observing the 2004 Presidential Elections in Ukraine Rory Finnin and Adriana Helbig Observations from the Cherkasy Region Paul Terdal and Tatiana Terdal=20 >From Sunset to Sunrise in a Territorial Election Commission: Special Observations during a Crucial Night Peter Wittschorek and Hans-J=C3=B6rg Schmedes Optimism and Gratitude: Reflections of an Election Observer in the Poltava Region Adrianna Melnyk III The Special Case of Electoral District No. 100 Election Observation in a =E2=80=98Notorious=E2=80=99 Region: The 100th Constituency in Kirovohrad Oblast Ingmar Bredies The Repeat Second Round of the 2004 Presidential Elections in Kirovohrad Oxana Shevel My Experience of a Lifetime: Elections 2004 in Kirovohrad Volodymyr Bilyk ORDER VIA THE WEBSITES: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3898218082/ref=3Dcm_arms_pdp_dp http://www.ibidem-verlag.com/epages/61235722.sf/en_US/?ObjectPath=3D/Shops/= 61235722/Products/978-3-89821-808-5 http://www.amazon.de/Aspects-Orange-Revolution-Presidential-Post-Soviet/dp/= 3898218082/ref=3Dcm_lmf_tit_16 ------------------------------ Bredies, Ingmar, Umland, Andreas and Yakushik, Valentin (Eds.) Aspects of the Orange Revolution V Institutional Observation Reports on the 2004 Ukrainian Presidential Electi= ons (=3DSoviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, vol. 67) Stuttgart & Hannover: ibidem-Verlag 242 pages. Paperback. 2007 ISBN 978-3-89821-809-2 Book series =E2=80=9CSoviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society=E2=80=9D www.ibidem-verlag.de/spps.html ISSN 1614-3515 34.90 =E2=82=AC=20 Price incl. VAT, plus Shipping=20 CONTENTS Introduction The Institute of International Election Observation in Ukraine Jevgen Shapoval 1 Reports by Non-Governmental Institutions 1.1 The International Republican Institute (IRI) Preliminary Statement on the First Round of the Ukrainian Presidential Election (October 31, 2004) Preliminary Statement on the Second Round of the Ukrainian Presidential Election (November 21, 2004) Preliminary Statement on the Third Round of the Ukrainian Presidential Election (December 26, 2004) 1.2 Tel Aviv Institute for the Countries of Eastern Europe and CIS (ICEE) Conclusions of the Official Mission of International Observers on the Presidential Elections in Ukraine 2004 [Excerpts from the Official Report]=09 1.3 European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO)=09 Statement on the First Round of the Presidential Elections in Ukraine (October 31, 2004)=09 Statement on the Second Round of the Presidential Elections in Ukraine (October 31 =E2=80=93 November 21, 2004) Statement on the Third Round of the Presidential Elections in Ukraine (December 26, 2004) Summary Report on the 2004 Presidential Elections in Ukraine=20 2 Reports by Governmental Institutions 2.1 The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Press Release: PACE Delegation Expects =E2=80=98Corrective Action=E2=80=99 in Time for Ukraine Election, Kyiv, 29 September 2004 Observation of the Presidential Election in Ukraine (31 October 2004): Report by the Ad Hoc Committee of the Bureau of the Assembly APPENDIX =E2=80=93=09International Election Observation Mission Press Release: Widespread Campaign Irregularities Observed in Ukrainian Presi- dential Election, Kyiv, 1 November 2004 Observation of the Presidential Elections in Ukraine =E2=80=93 Second Round (21 November 2004): Report of the Ad hoc Committee of the Bureau of the Assembly=20 APPENDIX =E2=80=93=09International Election Observation Mission Press Release: Second Round of Ukrai- nian Election Failed to Address Election Irregularities and Lacked Transparency, Kyiv, 22 November 2004 Observation of the Presidential Election in Ukraine =E2=80=93 Re-run Second Round of the Election (26 December 2004): Report by the Ad hoc Committee of the Bureau of the Assembly=20 APPENDIX =E2=80=93=09International Election Observation Mission Press Release: Repeat Second Round of Election Brings Ukraine Substantially Closer to Meeting International Standards, Kyiv, 27 December 2004=20 2.2 The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) Final Report of the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission on the Presidential Elections in Ukraine on 31 October, 21 November and 26 December 2004 (Warsaw, 11 May 2005) Annex: Election Results=20 About the OSCE/ODIHR 2.3 The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Announcement of the International Observers of the CIS on the Results of the Observation of the Preparation and Conduct of the Elections of the President of Ukraine on 31 October 2004 [Excerpts] Announcement of the International Observers of the CIS on the Results of the Observation of the Preparation and Conduct of Repeat Voting during the Elections of the President of Ukraine on 21 November 2004 [Excerpts] Announcement of the International Observers of the CIS on the Results of the Observation of the Preparation and Conduct of the Repeat Voting during the Elections of the President of Ukraine on 26 December 2004 [Excerpts] Conclusions Monitoring the Election Monitors Roman Kupchinsky ORDER VIA THE WEBSITES: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3898218090/ref=3Dcm_arms_pdp_dp http://www.ibidem-verlag.com/epages/61235722.sf/en_US/?ObjectPath=3D/Shops/= 61235722/Products/978-3-89821-809-2 http://www.amazon.de/Aspects-Orange-Revolution-Institutional-Presidential/d= p/3898218090/ref=3Dcm_lmf_tit_17 ----------------------------- Kuzio, Taras (Ed.) Aspects of the Orange Revolution VI Post-Communist Democratic Revolutions in Comparative Perspective (=3DSoviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, vol. 68) Stuttgart & Hannover: ibidem-Verlag 226 Pages. Paperback. 2007 ISBN 978-3-89821-820-7 Book series =E2=80=9CSoviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society=E2=80=9D www.ibidem-verlag.de/spps.html ISSN 1614-3515 34.90 =E2=82=AC=20 Price incl. VAT, plus Shipping=20 CONTENTS International Diffusion and Postcommunist Electoral Revolutions Valerie Bunce, Sharon Wolchik Democracy or Autocracy on the March? The Colored Revolutions as Normal Dynamics=20 of Patronal Presidentialism Henry E. Hale Explaining the Success and Failure=20 of Post-Communist Revolutions Paul D=E2=80=99Anieri Color Revolutions: The Belarus Case David R. Marples Civil Society, Youth and Societal Mobilization=20 in Democratic Revolutions Taras Kuzio The Dynamics of Autocratic Coercive Capacity=20 after the Cold War Lucan A. Way, Steven Levitsky Power and Persuasion: Nonviolent Strategies=20 to Influence State Security Forces in=20 Serbia (2000) and Ukraine (2004) Anika Locke Binnendijk, Ivan Marovic ORDER VIA THE WEBSITES: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3898218201/ref=3Dcm_arms_pdp_dp http://www.ibidem-verlag.com/epages/61235722.sf/en_US/?ObjectPath=3D/Shops/= 61235722/Products/978-3-89821-820-7 http://www.amazon.de/Aspects-Orange-Revolution-Post-Communist-Revolutions/d= p/3898218201/ref=3Dcm_lmf_tit_18 .......................................... ]