Systemic and Non-Systemic Opposition in the Russian Federation

Over the period December 2011-July 2013 a tidal wave of mass protests swept through the Russian Capital and engulfed scores of cities and regions. This fascinating book examines the rise and fall of the non-systemic opposition and the role of the systemic political opposition during this turbulent period. Leading experts in the field from Russia al

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Dr Cameron Ross is convenor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Dundee. He holds a BA (Hons) in Politics and History from the University of Keele, an MA in Soviet Politics from the University of Essex and a Ph.D from the University of Cambridge. Before coming to Dundee in 1995, he taught politics at Cambridge University, the College of William and Mary, USA, and Oberlin College, USA.

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Introduction, CameronRoss; Chapter 1 Civil Society and Protests in Russia, AlfredEvans; Chapter 2 The Protest Movement in Russia 2011-2013, DenisVolkov; Chapter 3 Defining Common Ground, ReginaSmyth, IrinaSoboleva, LukeShimek, AntonSobolev; Chapter 4 Middle Class Support for Democracy and Political Protests in Russia, CameronRoss; Chapter 5 The 'Post-Soviet' Russian Left - Escaping the Shadow of Stalinism?, LukeMarch; Chapter 6 The Systemic Opposition in Authoritarian Regimes, RostislavTurovsky; Chapter 7 Combating the Opposition: United Russia's Electoral and Party Reforms 2012-13, AlexanderKynev; Chapter 8 Political, Social and Ethnic Protests in Bashkortostan and Tatarstan, ValentinMikhailov; Chapter 9 Civic Protests in Tyumen Region, OlesyaLobanova, AndreySemenov; Chapter 10 The Protest Movement in Yekaterinburg, MikhailIl'chenko;