Issues and Voters in the 1994 Ukrainian Presidential Elections

  • Taras Kuzio
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Part of the Studies in Russian and East European History and Society book series (SREEHS)

Abstract

The 1994 presidential elections in Ukraine revealed many myths and legends, few of which are grounded in reality. Western media coverage was influenced by presidential elections held in neighbouring Belarus. The election of Alexander Lukashenko and Leonid Kuchma in Belarus and Ukraine respectively had the unfortunate result of being described as one and the same trend which looked set to reintegrate the former USSR with Russia. Regarding the ‘legend of Kuchma as a friend of reform and the legend of Kravchuk as a hardened nationalist, if Kravchuk were a nationalist the national minorities would not have voted for him?’ Myroslav Popovych, head of the Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences, pointed out.2

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Prime Minister Economic Reform Communist Party Presidential Election Official Language 
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Notes

  1. 3.
    David R. Marples, ‘Ukraine after the Presidential Elections’, RFE/RL Research Report, vol. 3, no. 31 (12 August 1994), p. 10.Google Scholar
  2. 4.
    See T. Kuzio, ‘Kravchuk to Kuchma: The Ukrainian Presidential Elections of 1994’, The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, vol. 12, no. 2 (June 1996), pp. 117–44.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  3. 22.
    See Carol Barner-Barry and Cynthia A. Hody, The Politics of Change. The Transformation of the Former Soviet Union (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995), p. 263.Google Scholar
  4. 167.
    Student hunger strikers forced Masol’s resignation as prime minister in October 1990 when Kravchuk was parliamentary speaker. See Taras Kuzio and Andrew Wilson, Ukraine. Perestroika to Independence (London: Macmillan, 1994).Google Scholar
  5. 190.
    Roman Szporluk, ‘Nation Building in Ukraine: Problems and Prospects’, in John W. Blaney, ed., The Successor States to the USSR (Washington D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1995), p. 180.Google Scholar
  6. 193.
    Dmytro Vydrin and Dmytro Tabachnyk, Ukraina na Porozi XXI Stolittia. Politychnyi Aspekt (Kyiv: Lybid, 1995), p. 173. The authors of this book were heavily criticised by the Congress of the Ukrainian Intelligentsia for backing a Eurasian (in contrast to European) orientation for Ukraine (Chas-Time, 17 November 1995).Google Scholar

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© Taras Kuzio 1997

Authors and Affiliations

  • Taras Kuzio
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  1. 1.Centre for Russian and East European StudiesThe University of BirminghamUK

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