Paper title:
 The Granite Revolution: A Role Model or a Missed Opportunity
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4316/CC.2023.01.03
Published in:
Issue 1 (Vol. 29) / 2023
Publishing date:
2023-07-31
Pages:
53 - 72
Author(s):
Oleksandr Boyko, Mateusz Kamionka
Abstract:
 The events that took place on Kyiv’s Maidan in 1990 went down in history as the ‘Revolution on Granite’. It was one of the first student performances in the USSR. Over the years, however, the revolution lost part of its name because, as Oles Donii* himself recalls, the full name of the events he helped organise was ‘Student Revolution on Granite’. However, the activity of young people was not rewarded, and the opposition, together with the Communists, raised the age for running for election to the Verkhovna Rada, which clearly destroyed the careers of young activists. The authors of the article try to show not only little-known facts from the history of Ukraine’s systemic transformation, but also the changes that the revolution brought about in Ukraine’s political system. The authors mainly use methods of source analysis, often a little-known position, which undoubtedly positively affects the cognitive value of the article.
Keywords:
 Revolution, Youth, Protests, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Maidan.




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