Right-Wing Party Politics in Post-Soviet Ukraine and the Riddle of Ukrainian Nationalists’ Electoral Marginality, 1994–2009
2/2010
Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.
SUMMARY:
The article by Andreas Umland and Anton Shekhovtsov addresses one of the most surprising features of the post-Soviet political landscape: the unprecedentedly low profile of right-wing political parties in Ukraine throughout the two decades of its existence since acquiring independence. Despite the fact that ultranationalist parties emerged in Ukraine already during the last years of the Soviet Union and developed further in the 1990s, none of them was capable of sending any significant number of deputies to the parliament, not to mention forming a parliamentary faction. The authors discuss this exceptional phenomenon, and offer a number of possible explanations.