Competing National Identities And Democratization In Ukraine: The Fifth And Sixth Cycles In Post-Soviet Ukranian
Competing National Identities And Democratization In Ukraine: The Fifth And Sixth Cycles In Post-Soviet Ukranian

Summary/Abstract: In the last century, Ukraine has experienced six cycles of national revival and democratization followed on each occasion by a conservative Russophile counter revolution against Ukrainian national identity and democracy. The cy¬cle had not run its course in 1991 when the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU) was banned and the party had by then shrunk to a small coterie of “imperial communists” who supported the August 1991 putsch in Moscow. Although only 5 percent of its Soviet-era 3.5 million members re-joined the re-legalized KPU after 1993, a more serious threat to Ukrainian national identity and de¬mocratization emerged eight years later in the Party of Regions. The bases of support for the KPU and Party of Regions are the Donbass and Crimea which were the strongholds of the Russophile, conservative wing of the Soviet-era KPU.

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