In the coming years, analysts of current affairs are certain to examine and debate the "Orange Revolution's" significance for Ukrainian and more broadly post-Communist politics and societies. Guided by their own views of "2004", historians will be rethinking and rewriting the history of Ukraine. In so doing, they will remain faithful to a long-established academic tradition: as everybody knows, "1917" inspired generations of scholars, both in Russia and in the West, to search for – and find – in the history of nineteenth-century Russia the origins of the Bolshevik revolution.
Read more