In April 2018, Armenia experienced a remarkable popular uprising
leading to the resignation of Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan and his
replacement by protest leader Nikol Pashinyan. Evoking
Czechoslovakia's similarly peaceful overthrow of communism 30 years
previously, the uprising came to be known as Armenia's 'Velvet
Revolution': a broad-based movement calling for clean government,
democracy and economic reform. This volume examines how a popular
protest movement, showcasing civil disobedience as a mass strategy
for the first time in the post-Soviet space, overcame these
unpromising circumstances. Situating the events in Armenia in their
national, regional and global contexts, different contributions
evaluate the causes driving Armenia's unexpected democratic turn,
the reasons for regime vulnerability and the factors mediating a
non-violent outcome. Drawing on comparative perspectives with
democratic transitions across the world, this book will be
essential reading for those interested in the regime dynamics,
social movements and contested politics of contemporary Eurasia, as
well as policy-makers and practitioners in the fields of democracy
assistance and human rights in an increasingly multipolar world.
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