Ukraine under Kuchma: Political Reform, Economic Transformation and Security Policy in Independent Ukraine

✍ Scribed by Taras Kuzio (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 300
• Series: Studies in Russian and East European History and Society
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ukraine under Kuchma is the first survey of recent developments in post-soviet Ukraine. The book covers in an in-depth manner the entire range of key developments since the 1994 parliamentary and presidential elections, the first elections held in post-soviet Ukraine. The new era ushered in by these elections led to Ukraine's launch of radical economic and political reforms which aim to domestically dismantle soviet power within Ukraine, stabilise relations with the separatist Crimean region and normalise relations with Russia and the West.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Introduction....Pages 1-5
A New Ukrainian Parliament....Pages 6-38
Issues and Voters in the 1994 Ukrainian Presidential Elections....Pages 39-66
The Crimea Returns to Ukraine....Pages 67-89
Political Reform and an End to the Soviet System....Pages 90-136
Economic Transformation and Structural Change....Pages 137-178
New Foreign and Defence Policies....Pages 179-226
Conclusions....Pages 227-229
Back Matter....Pages 230-281

✦ Subjects

Russian and Post-Soviet Politics;Political Science;European History