Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin's Russia - Couverture souple

Greene, Samuel A.

 
9780804792141: Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin's Russia
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0804792143 ISBN 13 : 9780804792141
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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, and what it might mean for Russia's political future, the author looks beyond blanket arguments about the impact of low levels of trust, the weight of the Soviet legacy, or authoritarian repression, and finds an active and boisterous citizenry that nevertheless struggles to gain traction against a ruling elite that would prefer to ignore them.

On a broader level, the core argument of this volume is that political elites, by structuring the political arena, exert a decisive influence on the patterns of collective behavior that make up civil society-and the author seeks to test this theory by applying it to observable facts in historical and comparative perspective.

Moscow in Movement will be of interest to anyone looking for a bottom-up, citizens' eye view of recent Russian history, and especially to scholars and students of contemporary Russian politics and society, comparative politics, and sociology.

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À propos de l?auteur

Samuel A. Greene is Director of King's Russia Institute at King's College London.

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804792143
ISBN 13 
9780804792141
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
296
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780804790789: Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin's Russia

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ISBN 10 :  0804790787 ISBN 13 :  9780804790789
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2014
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