The College of Europe in Natolin is proud to announce the publication of the first two volumes of the research of the Three Revolutions (3R) Project which summarizes the work of the past 3 years. The 3R project was brought to life in the aftermath of the mass protests in Ukraine in 2013-2014 known now as the Euromaidan or Revolution of Dignity.
The project team was set to provide a multidimensional analysis of the events in Ukraine. In order to identify the causes of the mass protest movements in Ukraine and their impact on Ukraine and the wider region of Central and Eastern Europe. The Project traced the historical sources of Ukraine’s contestation politics and dived into such issues as identity politics, nation building transition process and beyond. To that effect, the Project team concentrated its efforts on the three major protests in Ukraine’s recent history (Revolution on Granite of 1990, Orange Revolution of 2004-2005 and Revolution of Dignity of 2013-2014) and organized unprecedented international symposia, collected oral history testimonies and conducted archival research and secondary sources analysis.
Three Revolutions: Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine I. Theoretical Aspects and Analyses on Religion, Memory, and Identity
Volume I of the publication entitled Three Revolutions: Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine I. Theoretical Aspects and Analyses on Religion, Memory, and Identity presents academic analysis of the revolutionary events which took place in Ukraine between 1990 and 2014 and the impact of Ukrainian mass protests Ukrainian society and politics as well as developments in the region of Eastern Europe. Among the authors who contributed to the volume are the leading experts in Ukrainian studies: Dr Olga ONUCH, Dr Andrew WILSON, Dr Kataryna WOLCZUK, Dr Oleksandr HRYTSENKO and others.
Three Revolutions: Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine II. An Oral History of the Revolution on Granite, Orange Revolution, and Revolution of Dignity
Volume II of the publication Three Revolutions: Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine II. An Oral History of the Revolution on Granite, Orange Revolution, and Revolution of Dignity collects source materials for the scholars and students interested in Ukrainian modern history and politics. The volume consists of annotated interviews with participants of Ukrainian mass protests starting from the Revolution on Granite in 1990 and finishing with the events of Euromaidan or Revolution of Dignity in 2013-2014; Ukrainian politicians involved in the crises; as well as European politicians who were involved in European-Ukrainian relations development and have been engaged in resolving the political crises in Ukraine. The editors’ add-notations to the interviews provide contextual historical and cultural information for the readers less familiar with Ukraine’s 20 century history and or social and cultural life in Ukraine in the last decades of the soviet era.
The second part of Volume II includes transcripts of the historic reconstruction seminars dedicated to the three main protests in Ukraine’s recent history: Revolution on Granite of 1990, Orange Revolution of 2004-2005, and Revolution of Dignity of 2013-2014 which took place at the College of Europe in Natolin in the spring 2016.
The volumes have been edited by the Three Revolutions Project principal investigators: Professor Georges MINK and Professor Paweł KOWAL together with Dr Iwona REICHARDT, Mr Adam REICHARDT and Ms Kateryna PRYSHCHEPA performing fact checking and additional copy-editing for Volume II.
The editors also thank Mr Leonid FINBERG, Mr Mykhailo KANAFOTSKYI who provided historical infographic materials for Volume II and Mr Eliasz STRONGOWSKI whose graphic works developed during the Revolution of Dignity are also included in Volume I.
The volumes have been published by the Ibidem Verlag publishing house in its series Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society and will be available for purchase from November 2019 via the publishing house Ibidem Verlag or its distribution partner Columbia University Press.
You can purchase the volumes on the following websites:
- Volume I Three Revolutions: Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine I. Theoretical Aspects and Analyses on Religion, Memory, and Identity
- Volume II Three Revolutions: Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine II. An Oral History of the Revolution on Granite, Orange Revolution, and Revolution of Dignity
At present, the Three Revolutions Project team is working on the third and final volume of the publication which will consist of annotated archival documents presenting the events of the three Ukrainian revolutions collected by the project's research team.