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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Map | |
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| Key Facts | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Main Arguments of the Book | |
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| Structure of the Book | |
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| Ukraine: Nation, History, and Soviet Reforms | |
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| A Proud but Tragic National Legacy | |
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| Society Wakes Up under Gorbachev | |
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| Impact of Soviet Economic Reforms and Crisis | |
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| Leonid Kravchuk: Nation-Building and Hyperinflation, 1991-94 | |
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| National Independence | |
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| Kravchuk as President | |
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| Liberation from Russia | |
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| Ukraine's Denuclearization | |
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| The Grand Bargain of Ukraine's New Political Forces | |
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| Nationalist Economic Policy with Little Thought | |
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| Prime Minister Kuchma: Aborted Reform | |
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| Prime Minister Zviahilskiy: Unabashed Rent Seeking | |
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| Hyperinflation and Economic Disaster | |
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| Rent Seeking: Rationale of Ukraine's Early Economic Policy | |
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| Crimea: Threat of Secession | |
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| Kravchuk: Father of the Nation | |
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| Leonid Kuchma's Reforms, 1994-96 | |
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| Parliamentary Elections, Spring 1994 | |
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| Presidential Elections, June-July 1994 | |
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| Kuchma Proclaims Radical Economic Reforms | |
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| Financial Stabilization and Liberalization | |
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| Currency Reform, September 1996 | |
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| Privatization Takes Off | |
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| Adoption of the New Constitution, June 1996 | |
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| Economic Policy Reversal | |
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| Limited but Effective International Assistance | |
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| Kuchma Saved His Country | |
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| Kuchma's Stagnation, 1996-99 | |
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| Lazarenko's Excesses | |
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| Pynzenyk's Abortive Program for Economic Growth | |
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| Pustovoitenko: Passive Loyalist | |
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| Kuchma's Foreign Policy | |
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| Intricacies of the Gas Trade | |
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| Rise of the Oligarchs | |
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| Crime and Law Enforcement | |
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| Demise of Media Freedom | |
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| Parliamentary Elections, March 1998 | |
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| Kuchma's Reelection, October-November 1999 | |
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| Underreform Trap | |
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| Viktor Yushchenko's Reforms, 2000 | |
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| On the Verge of Default | |
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| Oligarchs Opt for a Reform Government | |
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| Government Reform | |
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| Financial Cleansing and the Defeat of Barter | |
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| Energy Trade Cleaned Up | |
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| Agricultural Land Privatization | |
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| Privatization of Large Enterprises | |
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| Deregulation of Small Firms and Anticorruption Measures | |
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| The Gongadze Murder and "Kuchmagate" | |
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| Yushchenko's Ouster | |
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| A Severe Break in the Rent-Seeking Society | |
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| Competitive Oligarchy with High Growth, 2001-04 | |
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| The Kinakh Government | |
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| Organization of a Strong Center-Right Opposition | |
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| The March 2002 Parliamentary Elections | |
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| The Yanukovych Government | |
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| Controversial Privatization of Kryvorizhstal | |
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| Economic Boom | |
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| Putin's Policy on Ukraine: Gas Trade, Common Economic Space, and the Tuzla Incident | |
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| NATO and the European Union's European Neighborhood Policy | |
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| The Orange Revolution, 2004 | |
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| Options of the Old Regime | |
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| Mobilization of the Opposition and Civil Society | |
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| The Regime: Mobilized but Divided | |
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| Russia's Role | |
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| The Election Campaign: Yushchenko versus Yanukovych | |
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| The Presidential Elections | |
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| The Orange Revolution | |
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| The Settlement | |
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| Assessment of the Orange Revolution | |
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| Aftermath of the Orange Revolution, 2005-08 | |
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| Formation of an Orange Coalition | |
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| Ukraine Turns to Europe | |
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| The Tymoshenko Government: Reprivatization | |
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| The Yekhanurov Government: Return to Order | |
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| Russia Disrupts Gas Deliveries: Higher Prices | |
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| Parliamentary Elections, March 2006 | |
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| The Second Yanukovych Government: Oligarchy Restored | |
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| Dissolution of Parliament and New Parliamentary Elections, September 2007 | |
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| The Second Tymoshenko Government: Stalemate | |
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| WTO Accession, May 2008 | |
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| NATO Controversies and Russia's War in Georgia | |
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| Renewed Financial Crisis and IMF Agreement | |
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| Yushchenko Insists on New Elections | |
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| Limited Social Achievements | |
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| Lessons from Ukraine's Transformation | |
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| Constitutional Evolution and Shortcomings | |
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| Why Ukraine's Capitalist Transformation Succeeded | |
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| Role of the IMF | |
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| Impact of the Oligarchs | |
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| Will Ukraine's Democracy Survive? | |
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| European Economic Convergence | |
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| Putin's Alienation: Ukraine Turning to the West | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Brief Biographies of Leading Politicians and Businessmen | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Index | |
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| Tables | |
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| Results of presidential election, December 1, 1991 | |
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| Results of election to the Supreme Rada, March-April 1994 | |
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| Results of presidential election, June-July 1994 | |
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| Results of election to the Supreme Rada, March 29, 1998 | |
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| Results of presidential election, 1999 | |
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| Results of election to the Supreme Rada, March 31, 2002 | |
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| Composition of the Supreme Rada, 2002 and 2004 | |
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| Results of presidential election, 2004 | |
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| Results of election to the Supreme Rada, March 26, 2006 | |
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| Results of elections to the Supreme Rada, September 30, 2007 | |
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| Figures | |
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| Decline in Ukraine's GNP, 1990-94 | |
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| Underground economy, 1989-95 | |
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| Monthly inflation and monetary expansion in Ukraine, 1992-94 | |
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| Ukraine's total state revenues, expenditures, and budget deficit, 1992-94 | |
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| Ukraine's consolidated state budget deficit, 1994-99 | |
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| Ukraine's inflation rate (consumer price index), 1994-99 | |
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| Share of GDP from private enterprise, 1991-2007 | |
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| GDP growth, 1990-99 | |
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| Rate of homicides and attempted murders in Ukraine and Russia, 1990-2007 | |
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| Cumulative GDP change, 1989-99 | |