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State against Civil Society

Over the period December 2011July 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 revolts which toppled authoritarian dictators in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. However, by the end of 2013 the number of mass protests in Russia, and their size, had declined precipitously. President Putin, on returning to office in 2012, had quickly regained the upper hand over the protestors.

This book examines the reasons for the rise and fall of the mass protests in the Russian Federation. Internationally renowned experts in the field of Russian politics from Russia and the UK provide important new insights into the nature of the mass opposition movement (the non-systemic opposition), its strengths and its weaknesses. A key novel aspect of the study is its focus on the national and regional dimensions of the protest movement, and its class and ethnic dimensions.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.

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 Gelman, 2010); and Local Politics and Democratization in Russia (Routledge, BASEES Series on Russian and East European Studies, 2009).

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State against Civil Society

Contentious Politics and the Non-Systemic Opposition in Russia

Edited by Cameron Ross

State against Civil Society

Contentious politics and the non-systemic opposition in Russia

Edited by
Cameron Ross

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Contents

Cameron Ross

Vladimir Gelman

Richard Sakwa

Irina Busygina & Mikhail Filippov

Mikhail Dmitriev

Elena Chebankova

Evgeny Gontmakher & Cameron Ross

Regina Smyth & Sarah Oates

Irina Semenenko

Tomila Lankina & Alisa Voznaya

The chapters in this book were originally published in Europe-Asia Studies, volume 67, issue 2 (March 2015). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

Chapter 1

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

Cameron Ross

Europe-Asia Studies, volume 67, issue 2 (March 2015) pp. 171176

Chapter 2

Political Opposition in Russia: A Troubled Transformation

Vladimir Gelman

Europe-Asia Studies, volume 67, issue 2 (March 2015) pp. 177191

Chapter 3

Questioning Control and Contestation in Late Putinite Russia

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