Moscow in Movement
Subtitle: Power and Opposition in Putin's Russia
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Aug 20, 2014
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780804792141
Description: 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,
Notes: Source title: Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin's Russia