Coup d’État vs. Revolution: The Scopes of Regime Change Legitimacy in Ukraine during and after the Euromaidan and before the Annexation of Crimea
Journal: Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing eBooks
Year: 2015

In this paper a certain theoretical framework of regime change which is considered applicable to the Ukrainian case, will be presented. Then some key interpretations of the Ukrainian regime change, which vary from a legitimate democratic manifestation of the public will to a coup d’état will be evaluated. Finally, the following question will be answered: what kind of different perceptions produce the diverse attitudes to the events in Ukraine? In this part, the Author is going to use discourse a