From roses to bullets: the rise and decline of
post-Soviet colour revolutions
Ó Beacháin, DonnachaORCID: 0000-0003-3039-6934 and Polese, Abel
(2009)
From roses to bullets: the rise and decline of
post-Soviet colour revolutions.
In: Backes, Uwe, Jaskulowski, Tytus and Polese, Abel, (eds.)
Totalitarianism and Transformation: Central and Eastern Europe between Socialist Legacy and Democratic Transformation (Totalitarismus und Transformation Defizite der Demokratiekonsolidierung in Mittel- und Osteuropa).
Schriften des Hannah-Arendt-Instituts für Totalitarismusforschung, Band 37
.
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, pp. 63-100.
ISBN 978-3525369111
The chapter explores the reasons for the colour revolutions’ successes and failures in the post-Soviet space. The article starts with an overview on the colour movement from
the first stirrings to the present day. We then propose criteria that will be applied to our analysis, constructed on five variables. The factual analysis of individual countries that follows is built around these five variables.