The Russian protests, sparked by the 2011 Duma election, have been
widely portrayed as a colourful but inconsequential middle-class
rebellion, confined to Moscow and organized by an unpopular
opposition. In this sweeping new account of the protests, Mischa
Gabowitsch challenges these journalistic cliches, showing that they
stem from wishful thinking and media bias rather than from accurate
empirical analysis. Drawing on a rich body of material, he analyses
the biggest wave of demonstrations since the end of the Soviet
Union, situating them in the context of protest and social
movements across Russia as a whole. He also explores the legacy of
the protests in the new era after Ukraine's much larger Maidan
protests, the crises in Crimea and the Donbass, and Putin's
ultra-conservative turn. As the first full-length study of the
Russian protests, this book will be of great value to students and
scholars of Russia and to anyone interested in contemporary social
movements and political protest.
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