1st Edition

State against Civil Society Contentious Politics and the Non-Systemic Opposition in Russia

Edited By Cameron Ross Copyright 2016
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

Over the period December 2011-July 2013, a tidal wave of mass protests swept through the Russian capital and engulfed scores of cities and regions. These demonstrations came as a great shock to the Russian political establishment. After decades of passive acceptance of the status quo, it appeared that civil society was at last awakening. The protests came in the wake of the "Arab Spring"... Read more

1. State against Civil Society: Contentious Politics and the Non-Systemic Opposition in Russia Cameron Ross

2. Political Opposition in Russia: A Troubled Transformation Vladimir Gel’man

3. Questioning Control and Contestation in Late Putinite Russia Richard Sakwa

4. The Calculus of Non-Protest in Russia: Redistributive Expectations from Political Reforms Irina Busygina and Mikhail Filippov

5. Lost in Transition? The Geography of Protests and Attitude Change in Russia Mikhail Dmitriev

6. Competing Ideologies of Russia's Civil Society Elena Chebankova

7. The Middle Class and Democratisation in Russia Evgeny Gontmakher and Cameron Ross

8. Mind the Gaps: Media Use and Mass Action in Russia Regina Smyth and Sarah Oates

9. Ethnicities, Nationalism and the Politics of Identity: Shaping the Nation in Russia Irina Semenenko

10. New Data on Protest Trends in Russia’s Regions Tomila Lankina and Alisa Voznaya

Biography

Cameron Ross is a Reader in Politics and International Relations, in the School of Humanities at the University of Dundee, UK. He has published widely in the field of Russian politics, particularly in the areas of federalism, regional and local politics. His most recent books are: Russian Regional Politics under Putin and Medvedev (Routledge, Europe-Asia Studies Series, 2011); The Politics of Subnational Authoritarianism in Russia (co-edited with Vladimir Gel’man, 2010); and Local Politics and Democratization in Russia (Routledge, BASEES Series on Russian and East European Studies, 2009).