1st Edition

Post-Soviet Civil Society Democratization in Russia and the Baltic States

By Anders Uhlin Copyright 2006
224 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

The development of civil society has varied greatly across the former Soviet Union. The Baltic states have achieved a high level of integration with the West and European Union membership, while some regions in Russia lag far behind. Now for the first time there is a comparative study of civil society and democratization across post-Soviet national borders. Acknowledging the enormous... Read more

1 Introduction  2 Democratization and Civil Society: A Framework for Analysis  3 Civil Society and the Fall of Communist Rule  4 Actors and Activities in Post-Soviet Civil Society  5 Civil Society, the State, and Other Arenas 6 The Transnationalization of Local Civil Society  7 Civil Society and Democratization: A Multilevel Analysis

Biography

Anders Uhlin is associate professor of political science at Lund University, Sweden. His main fields of research are democratization, civil society and transnational relations. Previous publications include Indonesia and the ‘Third Wave of Democratisation’ (1997) and Transnational Activism in Asia (2004) (co-edited with Nicola Piper).