Varieties of Russian Activism

State-Society Contestation in Everyday Life
Despite decades of Putin, it is too simplistic to assert that authoritarianism has eliminated Russian activism, especially in relation to everyday life. Instead 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.

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, 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.

Contributor: Eleonora Minaeva (Contributions by), Elena Sirotkina (Contributions by), Irina Shevtsova (Contributions by), Jeremy Morris (Edited by), Katie L. Stewart (Contributions by), Regina Smyth (Edited by), Carola Neugebauer (Contributions by), Irina Meyer-Olimpieva (Contributions by), Anna Zhelnina (Contributions by), Madeline McCann (Contributions by), Daniela Zupan (Contributions by), John P. Burgess (Contributions by), Ivan S. Grigoriev (Contributions by), Guzel Yusupova (Contributions by), Katherine Hitchcock (Contributions by), Anna A. Dekalchuk (Contributions by), Jan Matti Dollbaum (Contributions by), Jeremy Morris (Contributions by), Andrei Semenov (Edited by)

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