The puzzle of Russian civil society : an introduction -- Perspectives on civil society -- Russia's potemkin revolution -- Civil society in Russia : what we do and do not know -- Private brutality and public verdicts : defending human rights in Russia -- Our home is Russia : Russia's housing-rights movements -- Road rage : Russia's automotive rebellion -- Seizing the moment
Summary
Moscow in Movement is the first exhaustive study of social movements, protest, and the state-society relationship in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Beginning in 2005 and running through the summer of 2013, the book traces the evolution of the relationship between citizens and their state through a series of in-depth case studies, explaining how Russians mobilized to defend human and civil rights, the environment, and individual and group interests: a process that culminated in the dramatic election protests of 2011-2012 and their aftermath. To understand where this surprising mobilization came from,
