Kyrgyz Political Crisis of the "Tulip Revolution" to "Colorless Revolution": From the Perspective of Political Sociology

Since its independence in 1991, Kyrgyzstan has so far faced with several political crises. Its people dissatisfaction of inappropriate performances by the political system in solving the problems of society, resulted to a wave of protests, objections and finally revolutions against the two governments of Asker Akayev toppled on 24 March 2005 (the Tulip Revolution) and of Kurmanbek Bakiyev toppled in April 2010 (the Colorless Revolution). Analyzing the issue through theories of two main orthodox political sociologists: Max Weber and Lucien Pie, this article is trying to find from the perspective of political sociology, the main reason made Kyrgyzstan so unstable in the Central Asia and the factors affecting the formation of political crises in Kyrgyzstan since its independence to the collapse of the Tulip Revolution in April 2010. To the author's view, managing the political crisis in Kyrgyzstan is only possible through inhibition of crossover crises as well as institutionalization of nation building process and the government's ability to keep its monopoly in using force. This research is based on literature sources and descriptive-analytical methodology.