Varieties of Russian Activism State-Society Contestation in Everyday Life |
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Editor:
| Morris, Jeremy Semenov, Andrei Smyth, Regina |
Contribution by:
| Morris, Jeremy Stewart, Katie L. McCann, Madeline Neugebauer, Carola Shevtsova, Irina Zupan, Daniela Meyer-Olimpieva, Irina Hitchcock, Katherine Burgess, John P. Zhelnina, Anna Dekalchuk, Anna A. Grigoriev, Ivan S. Minaeva, Eleonora Dollbaum, Jan Matti Yusupova, Guzel Sirotkina, Elena |
ISBN: | 978-0-253-06546-9 |
Publication Date: | May 2023 |
Publisher: | Indiana University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $58.00 |
Book Description:
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Despite decades under Putin's rule, it is too simplistic to assert that authoritarianism in Russia has eliminated activism, especially in relation to everyday life. Instead, we must build an awareness of diverse efforts to mobilize citizens to better understand how activism is shaped by and, in turn, shapes the regime.
Varieties of Russian Activism focuses on a broad range of collective actions addressing issues from labor organizing to housing renovation,...
More DescriptionDespite decades under Putin's rule, it is too simplistic to assert that authoritarianism in Russia has eliminated activism, especially in relation to everyday life. Instead, we must build an awareness of diverse efforts to mobilize citizens to better understand how activism is shaped by and, in turn, shapes the regime.
Varieties of Russian Activism focuses on a broad range of collective actions addressing issues from labor organizing to housing renovation, religion, electoral politics, minority language rights, and urban planning. Contributors draw attention to significant forms of grassroots politics that have not received sufficient attention in scholarship or that deserve fresh examination. The volume shows that Russians find novel ways to redress everyday problems and demand new services. Together, these essays interrogate what kinds of practices can be defined as activism in a fast-changing, politically volatile society.
An engaging collection, Varieties of Russian Activism unites leading scholars in the common aim of approaching the embeddedness of civic activism in the conditions of everyday life, connectedness, and rising society-state expectations.