Taras Kuzio currently teaches at the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa. He was a Visiting Professor at George Washington University, Adjunct Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian & East European Studies, University of Birmingham. In these posts, he has taught on contemporary Ukrainian politics, nationalism, democratic revolutions, European Union politics and Trans-Atlantic Security. He was also Head of Mission at the NATO Information Office in Kyiv.

This book is the first to provide a collection of studies surveying different aspects of the rise of the Ukraine's democratic opposition from marginalization, to protest against presidential abuse of office and culminating in the Orange Revolution.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.

1. Introduction Taras Kuzio 2. Ethnic Tensions and State Strategies: Understanding the Survival of the Ukrainian State Paul D'Anieri 3. Oligarchs, Tapes and Oranges: 'Kuchmagate' to the Orange Revolution Taras Kuzio 4. State Institutions, Political Context and Parliamentary Election Legislation in Ukraine, 2000-2006 Erik S. Herron 5. Revolutionary Bargain: The Unmaking of Ukraine's Autocracy through Pacting Serhiy Kudelia 6. Patriotism, Order and Articulations of the Nation in Kyiv High Schools: Before and After the Orange Revolution Anna Fournier 7. Rock, Pop and Politics in Ukraine's 2004 Presidential Campaign and Orange Revolution Bohdan Klid 8. Anti-Orange Discourses in Ukraine's Internet: Before the Orange Split Olga Filippova 9. Gender and the Orange Revolution Alexandra Hrycak