Ukraine: perestroika to independence
By: Taras Kuzio (Fellow, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham); Andrew Wilson (Lecturer, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London)
Contributors: Wilson, Andrew
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Macmillan Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780333739839; 9780333738443
Description: This text surveys the entire range of developments in the fields of politics, society, independent parties, the Communist Party, independent media, foreign and military affairs on the road to independence, using primary official, samizdat & other sources.
Notes: Politics:Russian and Post Soviet Politics.
Table of contents: title: Theories of nationalism and the Soviet Ukrainian context; strengths and weaknesses of the National movement; Ukraine on the eve of the Gorbachev era; Gorbachev, dissent and the new opposition (1987-8); consolidation (1988-9); the birth of mass politics (1989-90); 1990; title: Ukrainian elections and the rise of a multi-party system; stalemate and the rise of national Communism (1990-1); from Soviet to independent Ukraine; title: the coup and aftermath.