Lost in Transition? The Geography of Protests and Attitude Change in Russia

Dmitriev, Mikhail

doi:10.1080/09668136.2014.1001576

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“…The focus groups were transcribed and coded with Maxqda to structure the material and assist in the interpretation. Combining focus group and quantitative analyses remains rare, although promising to understand protest (Dmitriev 2015).…”

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“…Nikolayenko, for instance, shows the centrality of patriotism during the 2014 marches against the military intervention in Donbas (2019). Tellingly, the Moscow middle class has been characterised as embodying a weak demand for democracy combined with a reluctance to participate in mass actions (Dmitriev 2015). This silent majority, the attitudes of the broader population, influences how the regime can respond to protests, since public opinion matters to authoritarian regimes, which adopt certain policies in response to attitudes among citizens (Chen and Xu 2017, Greene and Robertson 2019, Truex 2016.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Meanwhile, the local context also sustains the social networks, which are at the core of any protest movement (Diani 2013). Accordingly, those among the Moscow middle class who were involved in the protests against elections in 2011 and 2012 played an important role in changing how neighbours and friends relate to the political system (Chaisty and Whitefield 2013, Dmitriev 2015, Robertson 2013. Moreover, as a comparison of Yaroslavl and Tatarstan has shown, the political attitudes of regional leaders matter in shaping the possibility and character of mobilisation (Brunarska 2018: 323).…”

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Legitimate Political Demands? How Young Russians of Different Political Orientation Assess Protests

Krawatzek

2020

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Popular unrest is a source of worry also for seemingly stable authoritarian regimes. Young faces have become the image of protest in Russia over the last two years, and they convey the importance of protests that may emerge in any authoritarian regime. Nevertheless, it remains unclear what kind of young people are taking to the street and how their mobilisation is judged by their peers. This paper draws on survey data from 2018 and 2019 on the political attitudes of young Russians alongside focus group interviews generated in 2019 in Yekaterinburg and St. Petersburg. The combination of these two sources allows us to explore the shifting assessments of political and environmental protests and young people’s participation therein. It is argued that young Russians of different political orientation agree that Putin has been in power for too long and that also regime supporters do not, in principle, oppose regime critical protests. Rather, supporters insist on the importance for protests to be officially approved but question the genuine political nature of oppositional mobilisation. Friendship networks and institutional trust emerge as the key variables for understanding assessment of protests.

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2020

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“…The mid-2000s witnessed an increase of protest activity. Protesters' demands increasingly engaged with human rights and democratic values rhetoric (Dmitriev 2015). Similarly, as Alexander Kondakov's findings (2013) show, LGBT activists started employing human rights rhetoric in their work, while previously they were mostly concerned with the search for shared identity and community, as will be discussed later in more detail.…”

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What Motivates LGBT Activists to Protest? The Case of Russia

Buyantueva

2020

Problems of Post-Communism

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Russian LGBT activism started to emerge in the early post-Soviet years. However, only since the mid-2000s have Russian LGBT activists begun to engage in protest activity to a significant degree. In the ensuing years, they have organized (or attempted to do so) a variety of protest events on an annual basis. The paper draws on social psychological studies of collective action to examine what motivates Russian LGBT activists to protest. The study also seeks to investigate why they choose protests as a suitable tactic to achieve their goals.

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“…40 And yet the narrative put forth both by supporters and critics, of the protests being supported by the educated urban middle class and opposed by Russian workers in the provinces, is overly simplistic. First, protest data and survey and focus group evidence suggests that people in the Russia's heartland are also dissatisfied with Russia's direction, though their concerns tend to be more economic than the abstract demands put forth by the Moscow protesters 41 Second and relatedly, while the 2011-2012 protest wave crested fairly quickly, attention has since shifted to the state of the Russian economy, with economic concerns again becoming paramount, suggesting a more complex pattern than the linear progression of a middle class with increasing demands for political liberty.…”

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East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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Class structure, class inequality, and class analysis are central to understanding contemporary Russian politics and society. And yet Russians themselves—from social scientists, to political leaders, to everyday Russians—have struggled to come to grips with the concept of class, which became a taboo topic following the collapse of communism. In recent years, that has started to change. Russian social scientists have placed great emphasis on defining the Russian “middle class,” in a search both for a non-Marxist conception of class and for a social group with the potential to lead Russia toward a more liberal future. Yet the middle class concept remains fuzzy, and the political aspirations for the group have been only partially realized. Meanwhile, much of the rest of Russian society retains a more traditional view of class and class conflict, as reflected in various political struggles and even in popular culture, such as Russian film.

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Lost in Transition? The Geography of Protests and Attitude Change in Russia

Cited by 22 publications

References 7 publications

Legitimate Political Demands? How Young Russians of Different Political Orientation Assess Protests

Legitimate Political Demands? How Young Russians of Different Political Orientation Assess Protests

What Motivates LGBT Activists to Protest? The Case of Russia

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