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How to Bring Down an Oligarchy I: Armenia's Bloodless Revolution and What It Left Unfinished

by Ilkka Ronkainen
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9789528089353
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bod - Books on Demand
  • Publisher Imprint: Bod - Books on Demand
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  • Pages: 230
  • Original Price: USD 36.9
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1. Auflage
  • Item Weight: 282 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

In the spring of 2018, one man began by walking. He did not know he would win. He only knew that standing still had become impossible. Twenty-six days later, the oligarchy fell without a single death. Ilkka Ronkainen was there. He lived next door to the Armenian parliament, walked the streets of Yerevan day after day, and wrote every evening. He watched a revolution take shape from twenty meters away and watched what was left unbuilt in its aftermath. This book is his account of both. The first part is a day-by-day diary of Armenia's Velvet Revolution of 2018, one of the most remarkable political events of the twenty-first century. The second part asks the harder question: eight years later, what did the revolution actually deliver? Elections became genuinely free. The economy grew at extraordinary speed. Fear weakened. But high-level corruption remained unpunished, the judiciary never became truly independent, and the deep structures of oligarchic power adapted rather than disappeared. Armenia proved that a population can withdraw its consent from a corrupt system and prevail: peacefully, joyfully, and with overwhelming unity. What it could not yet prove is how to make that change permanent. Power is not untouchable. Systems that appear permanent are not permanent. Fear is not permanent.

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