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This is the fourth volume prepared by the initiators of the Three Ukrainian Revolutions (3R) project ongoing at the College of Europe in Natolin since 2016. The present collection of essays analyses the changes that have taken place in the post-Soviet space since 1991 and which have determined both the process of democratization and the return to authoritarianism in the new republics. Since 2022, researchers gathered around the 3R project have been asked: Had there been no revolutions and mass pro-democratic protest in Ukraine and other post-Soviet states, would there also be no war today? Answers to this and similarly intriguing questions are provided by: Marek Cichocki, Kinga Anna Gajda, Garry Kasparov, Magdalena Lachowicz, Wojciech Michnik, Georges Mink, Justyna Olędzka, Iwona Reichardt, Anton Saifullayeu, Kacper Wańczyk, Andrew Wilson and Kataryna Wolczuk.

Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the New Eastern Europe journal at the Jan Nowak-Jeziorański College of Eastern Europe in Wrocław. She holds a PhD in political science from the Jagiellonian University where she now teaches courses on Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since 2015 she has been a member of the Three Ukrainian Revolutions (3R) research team at the College of Europe in Natolin. She co-edited the three volume publication titled Three Revolutions. Mobilisation and Change in Contemporary Ukraine (2019-2022).

Permanent Professor at the College of Europe in Natolin. From 2019 to 2023 he was the Chairholder of the Chair of European History and Civilization. He is a sociologist and political scientist, specialising in Central and Eastern Europe. He has been one of the main two leaders of the Three Ukrainian Revolutions (3R) research project which was carried out by the College of Europe in Natolin from 2016 to 2024. He is Director Emeritus of Research at the Institut des Sciences Sociales et du Politique (CNRS - France), Université de Paris X, Nanterre and former President of the International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES), 2015-2021. His research and publications – more than 250 – include books, chapters in the collective publications, articles and expert papers, and are dedicated to political systems, the sociopolitical evolution of these regimes, the conversion of ex-communist elites in Central and Eastern Europe and the Europeanisation of national political systems. He was also a co-editor of the first two volumes of the Three Ukrainian Revolutions publication prepared in the framework of the 3R research project and published by Ibidem. Among his recent books is also La Pologne au coeur de l'Europe, de 1914 à aujourd'hui, histoire politique et conflits de mémoire, published by Buchet-Chastel in 2015 (French version) and in 2017 (Polish version).

Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Chairholder of the European Civilization Chair at the College of Europe in Natolin, where the Three Ukrainian Revolutions (3R) project was carried out. He is also Professor of Polish-Lithuanian History at University College London and Principal Historian of the Polish History Museum in Warsaw. His research and publications concentrate on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Age of Enlightenment. Awards include the Polish Historical Society's Pro historia Polonorum Prize for the book The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1733-1795: Light and Flame (2020).

Professor at the College of Europe in Natolin and Professor of International Relations at the Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. He specialises in international relations, German European politics, intellectual and political history of Europe. He lectured at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences of the Warsaw University (1995-2015), Postgraduate School for Social Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences (2001-2003) and at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome (2021-2022). He is also editor-in-chief of the Teologia Polityczna yearly. He has authored books, essays, articles and dissertations on international relations and history.