The book focuses on the reaction of the Eurasia authoritarian regimes to the colour revolutions in the region and shows how autocratic rulers studied various democracy promotion techniques to combat regime change in their state.

This book was published as a special issue of Democratization.

Preface Evgeny Finkel and Yitzhak Brudny 1. No more colour! Authoritarian regimes and colour revolutions in Eurasia Evgeny Finkel and Yitzhak Brudny 2. Russia and the colour revolutions Evgeny Finkel and Yitzhak Brudny 3. Questioning democracy promotion: Belarus' response to the 'colour revolutions' Elena Korosteleva 4. Oil in the family: managing presidential succession in Azerbaijan Scott Radnitz 5. Coloured by revolution: the political economy of autocratic stability in Uzbekistan Jennifer Murtazashvili 6. Tajikistan: authoritarian reaction in a postwar state Lawrence Markowitz 7. Democracy promotion, authoritarian resiliency, and political unrest in Iran Günes Murat Tezcür

Evgeny Finkel is Assistant Professor of Political Science, George Washington University, USA. His articles have been published in Comparative Politics, Democratization, East European Politics and Societies, Global Society, Genocide Studies and Prevention, and several other journals.

Yitzhak M. Brudny is the Jay and Leonie Darwin Chair in Russian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is the author of Reinventing Russia: Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953-1991 (Harvard University Press, 1998), and the principal editor of Restructuring Post-Communist Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2004). His articles on Russia and the former Soviet Union have appeared in numerous journals and edited volumes.