How to Keep Ukraine's Revolution From Spiraling Out of Control

Ukraine's EuroMaidan – the protests that ousted authoritarian President Yanukovych – is often referred to as a “revolution” in Ukraine (as a coup d'etat in Russia), and primarily in the past tense. Regularly, one can read in the press that three years ago, Ukraine “experienced a revolution” that toppled the old pro-Russian oligarchic kleptocracy, and brought a new pro-EU regime to power. According to this paradigm, the killing of the “Heavenly Hundred” by still unidentified snipers and riot police, coupled with Yanukovych's flight to Russia were the climax of the revolution. And the fact that the successive post-Yanukovych governments (led by acting President Turchynov, President Poroshenko, Prime Ministers Yatseniuk and Groysman) have disappointed many, suggests that Ukraine's revolution was somehow only partially successful.