Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Pre-Color Revolution Regimes
Chapter 3 . Electoral Breakthroughs
Chapter 4. The U.S. Role
Chapter 5. Russia
Chapter 6. Democracy After the Color Revolutions
Chapter 7. Exporting Color Revolutions
Chapter 8. Misreading Democratic Breakthroughs: U.S. Policy After the Color Revolutions
Chapter 9. The End of an Era
Appendix. Studying Color Revolutions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

Promotional Information

This book explores the origins of the Color Revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, asking what made them possible and what their impact was in each of these three countries. Ultimately, it argues that they had little impact on democratic development and were as much reflections of continuity as of radical change.

About the Author

Lincoln A. Mitchell is Associate Research Scholar at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University and author of Uncertain Democracy: U.S. Foreign Policy and Georgia's Rose Revolution, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews

"Although analytic reflections on the Color Revolutions are accumulating, nothing available matches this book's scope and depth. Mitchell's account, consistently searching and thorough, balanced and judicious, leads to some surprising and weighty conclusions that challenge the existing conventional wisdom on the Color Revolutions. It will likely stand for many years as the definitive work on the subject."
*Thomas Carothers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace*

"The Color Revolutions represents an important contribution to our understanding of what actually happened at the time and provides extremely useful insight about what the future might-or might not-hold for other countries where the desire for democracy is great but the roots of democracy are weak."
*Richard Miles, former U.S. ambassador to Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Bulgaria*

"Lincoln Mitchell has written a sober, concise, and thought-provoking analysis of the color revolutions in the former Soviet Union. As both a scholar and practitioner, he offers a unique and nuanced perspective on issues central to those revolutions and to regime change more broadly. His book is a must-read for anyone who wants a clear-eyed vision of the opportunities and pitfalls of democracy promotion in the twenty-first century."
*Lucan Way, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto*