Competing National Identities and Democratization in Ukraine : The Fifth and Sixth Cycles in Post-Soviet Ukrainian History
Journal: Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers (Hokkaido University)
Year: 2013

In the last century, Ukraine has experienced six cycles of national revival and democratization followed on each occasion by a conservative Russophile counter revolution against Ukrainian national identity and democracy. The cycle had not run its course in 1991 when the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU) was banned and the party had by then shrunk to a small coterie of “imperial communists” who supported the August 1991 putsch in Moscow. Although only 5 percent of its Soviet-era 3.5 million member