Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation

by Serhy Yekelchyk

Book Overview

In 2004 and 2005, striking images from the Ukraine made their way around the world, among them boisterous, orange-clad crowds protesting electoral fraud and the hideously scarred face of a poisoned opposition candidate. Europe's second-largest country but still an immature state only recently independent, Ukraine has become a test case of post-communist democracy, as millions of people in other countries celebrated the protesters' eventual victory.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195305469
• ISBN13: 9780195305463
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.2"