Russian civil society
Subtitle: a critical assessment
By: edited by Alfred B. Evans, Jr., Laura A. Henry, Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom.
Contributors: Evans, Alfred B.; Henry, Laura A., 1971-; Sundstrom, Lisa McIntosh, 1971-
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Civil society -- Russia (Federation); Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Laura A. Henry and Lisa Mcintosh Sundstrom; title: The history of civil society in Russia; title: Civil society in late Imperial Russia / Mary Schaeffer Conroy; title: Civil society in the Soviet Union? / Alfred B. Evans; title: The context of civil society development; title: Media, civil society, and the failure of the fourth estate in Russia / Sarah Oates; title: Business and civil society in Russia / Peter Rutland; title: Organized crime groups : "uncivil society" / Louise Shelley; title: The church and civil society in Russia / Edwin Bacon; title: Civil society in rural Russia / Stephen K. Wegren; title: Vladimir Putin's design for civil society / Alfred Evans; title: Society in contemporary Russia : case studies; title: Women's organizations : institutionalized interest groups or vulnerable dissidents? / Valerie Sperling; title: Soldiers' rights groups in Eussia : civil society through Russian and western eyes / Lisa Mcintosh Sundstrom; title: Russian trade unions : where are they in the former workers' state? / Sue Davis; title: Russian environmentalists and civil society / Laura A. Henry; title: Disability organizations in the regions / Kate Thomson; title: Formal and informal strategies of migrant populations / Moya Flynn; title: Public/ private permutations: domestic violence crisis centers in Barnaul / Janet Elise Johnson; title: Is civil society stronger in small towns? / Anne White; title: Concluding thoughts; title: Russian civil society : tensions and trajectories / Lisa Mcintosh Sundstrom and Laura A. Henry.