Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin's Russia PDF
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MOSCOW IN MOVEMENT MOSCOW IN MOVEMENT Power and Opposition in Putin’s Russia SAMUEL A. GREENE stanford university press Stanford, California Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2014 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been requested. ISBN: 978-0-8047-9078-9 (cloth) ISBN: 978-0-8047-9214-1 (paper) ISBN: 978-0-8047-9244-8 (electronic) Typeset by Thompson Type in 9.75/15 Sabon To Russia За Россию Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi 1 The Puzzle of Russian Civil Society: An Introduction 1 2 Perspectives on Civil Society 23 3 Russia’s Potemkin Revolution 58 4 Civil Society in Russia: What We Do and Do Not Know 92 5 Private Brutality and Public Verdicts: Defending Human Rights in Russia 110 6 Our Home Is Russia: Russia’s Housing-Rights Movements 145 7 Road Rage: Russia’s Automotive Rebellion 167 8 Seizing the Moment 202 9 Conclusions 219 Notes 229 Works Cited 239 Index 263 List of Illustrations Table 3.1 Size of the Central Committee 65 Table 3.2 Percentage of GDP Spent on Public Health and Education in Postcommunist States 80 Table 3.3 Percentage of Consolidated Tax Revenue from Individuals in Postcommunist States 81 Table 4.1 Sources of Influence on the Local Situation 98 Figure 4.1 Readiness of Russian Citizens and L’gotniki to Protest 108 Table 5.1 Oleinik Time Line 115 Table 5.2 Matrix of Cases 130 Table. 5.3 Victims of Crime: Which of the Following Has Happened to You? 132 Table. 5.4 What Sorts of Police Infractions Do Citizens Most Often Face? 133 ix
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