Open AccessBook
Post-Soviet Civil Society: Democratization in Russia and the Baltic States
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this article, a comparative study of civil society and democratization across post-Soviet national borders is presented, and the authors apply an innovative analytical framework derived from theories of democratization, civil society, social movements and transnational relations.Abstract:
The development of civil society has varied greatly across the former Soviet Union. The Baltic states have achieved a high level of integration with the West and European Union membership, while some regions in Russia lag far behind.
Now for the first time there is a comparative study of civil society and democratization across post-Soviet national borders. Acknowledging the enormous variation throughout the region, the book offers unique data on developments in Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Applying an innovative analytical framework derived from theories of democratization, civil society, social movements and transnational relations, the researchers have formulated broader comparisons and generalisations without neglecting the specific post-Soviet context. The book provides a systematic comparison across sectors as well as nations, and includes chapters on NGOs, the state and conflict, and transnationalisation. Quantitative survey data is combined with qualitative interviews and case study research to both confirm previous findings about the weakness of post-communist civil society and to qualify previous research.read more
Citations
More filters
Book
The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession
TL;DR: Sakwa argues that the dual state could be transcended either by strengthening the democratic state or by the consolidation of the arbitrary power of the administrative system as discussed by the authors, and he proposes a new model based on the concept of Russia as a dual state.
Journal ArticleDOI
The state and civil society in Post-Soviet Russia: The development of a Russian-style civil society:
TL;DR: This paper examined the development of civil society in Russia and argued that cultural and societal norms, which developed during the Soviet period, have continued to shape civil society arrangements in the post-Soviet period.
Book
A Cat's Lick: Democratisation and Minority Communities in the Post-Soviet Baltic.
TL;DR: Galbreath as mentioned in this paper explained post-communist democratisation in the Soviet Baltic and nation-building in the Baltics, and discussed the language of alienation, minority representation in social structures, and minority engagement in civic initiatives.
Journal ArticleDOI
State-society relations in contemporary Russia: new forms of political and social contention
Ammon Cheskin,Luke March +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical and empirical basis for understanding state-society relations in today's Russia involves broadening the concept of "contentious politics" to include models of "consentful" as well as "dissent" contention.
Journal ArticleDOI
From dusk to dawn Local party organization and party success of right-wing extremism
TL;DR: A marginal racist organization, Golden Dawn, managed to attract first the votes of almost one out of 14 Greek voters and then global media and public attention as discussed by the authors. But how did an extreme right groupuscule...