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Author Greene, Samuel A., author.

Title Moscow in movement : power and opposition in Putin's Russia / Samuel A. Greene.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The puzzle of Russian civil society : an introduction -- Perspectives on civil society -- Russia's potemkin revolution -- Civil society in Russia : what we do and do not know -- Private brutality and public verdicts : defending human rights in Russia -- Our home is Russia : Russia's housing-rights movements -- Road rage : Russia's automotive rebellion -- Seizing the moment.
Summary Moscow in Movement is the first exhaustive study of social movements, protest, and the state-society relationship in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Beginning in 2005 and running through the summer of 2013, the book traces the evolution of the relationship between citizens and their state through a series of in-depth case studies, explaining how Russians mobilized to defend human and civil rights, the environment, and individual and group interests: a process that culminated in the dramatic election protests of 2011-2012 and their aftermath. To understand where this surprising mobilization came from,
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Subject Civil society -- Russia (Federation)
Civil society.
Russia (Federation)
Political participation -- Russia (Federation)
Political participation.
Social movements -- Russia (Federation)
Social movements.
Opposition (Political science) -- Russia (Federation)
Opposition (Political science)
Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1991-
Since 1991
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Social movements.
Other Form: Print version: Greene, Samuel A., author. Moscow in movement 9780804790789 (DLC) 2014010116 (OCoLC)880237461
ISBN 9780804792448 (electronic book)
0804792445 (electronic book)
9780804790789
0804790787
9780804792141
0804792143