Front cover image for Russian civil society : a critical assessment

Russian civil society : a critical assessment

This volume undertakes a systematic analysis of the development of civil society in post-Soviet Russia. An introduction and two historical chapters provide background. The next several chapters analyze the Russian context, considering the roles of media, business, organized crime, the church, the village, and the Russian government in shaping the terrain of public life. Then eight case studies illustrate the range and depth of actual citizen organizations in various national and local community settings. A final chapter weighs the findings and distills some comparisons and conclusions
Print Book, English, ©2005
M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, N.Y., ©2005
vii, 340 pages ; 24 cm
9780765615213, 9780765615220, 0765615215, 0765615223
58648208
Introduction / Laura A. Henry and Lisa Mcintosh Sundstrom
The history of civil society in Russia
Civil society in late Imperial Russia / Mary Schaeffer Conroy
Civil society in the Soviet Union? / Alfred B. Evans
The context of civil society development
Media, civil society, and the failure of the fourth estate in Russia / Sarah Oates
Business and civil society in Russia / Peter Rutland
Organized crime groups : "uncivil society" / Louise Shelley
The church and civil society in Russia / Edwin Bacon
Civil society in rural Russia / Stephen K. Wegren
Vladimir Putin's design for civil society / Alfred Evans
Society in contemporary Russia : case studies
Women's organizations : institutionalized interest groups or vulnerable dissidents? / Valerie Sperling
Soldiers' rights groups in Eussia : civil society through Russian and western eyes / Lisa Mcintosh Sundstrom
Russian trade unions : where are they in the former workers' state? / Sue Davis
Russian environmentalists and civil society / Laura A. Henry
Disability organizations in the regions / Kate Thomson
Formal and informal strategies of migrant populations / Moya Flynn
Public/ private permutations: domestic violence crisis centers in Barnaul / Janet Elise Johnson
Is civil society stronger in small towns? / Anne White
Concluding thoughts
Russian civil society : tensions and trajectories / Lisa Mcintosh Sundstrom and Laura A. Henry