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| | ORANGE REVOLUTION :: Rebirth of a Nation |
 | | Its leaders, one of whom was the outstanding writer, publicist, and political and civic figure Volodymyr Kyrylovych Vynnychenko, faced the highly complex task of drawing bitter, inevitable lessons from the rich experience of the revolution, and by generalizing them to correct their vision of their country’s future. |
 | | Yet Vynnychenko’s three- volume work, perhaps like no other scholarly study devoted to this period, helps us fully and objectively picture not only the course of specific events but also the sentiments, mistakes, and illusions of different groups, classes, and parties in Ukrainian society of the time. |
 | | Moreover, as Vynnychenko himself pointed out, his work was being created at a time when “the future of Ukraine was enveloped in the smoke of bloody hatred, greedy encroachments from enemies, our helplessness and impotence” (July 1919). |
| www.orangerevolution.us /blog/_archives/2006/2/28/1788783.html (1258 words) |
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