Russian civil society : a critical assessment / editors, Alfred B. Evans, Jr., Laura A. Henry, and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Alfred B., Jr., 1939-2024.

Henry, Laura A., 1971-

Sundstrom, Lisa McIntosh, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil society--Russia (Federation).

Civil society.

Russia (Federation).

Russia (Federation)--Social conditions--1991-.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

vii, 340 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2006]

Contents:

Introduction / Laura A. Henry and Lisa Mcintosh Sundstrom

Civil society in late Imperial Russia / Mary Schaeffer Conroy

Civil society in the Soviet Union? / Alfred B. Evans, Jr.

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 B. Evans, Jr.

Women's organizations : institutionalized interest groups or vulnerable dissidents? / Valerie Sperling

Soldiers' rights groups in Russia : 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 : migrant activity in post-Soviet Russia / Moya Flynn

Public-private permutations: domestic violence crisis centers in Barnaul / Janet Elise Johnson

Is civil society stronger in small towns? / Anne White

Russian civil society : tensions and trajectories / Lisa Mcintosh Sundstrom and Laura A. Henry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0765615215

OCLC:

58648208