Regina Smyth, "Elections, Protest, and Authoritarian Regime Stability: Russia 2008–2020" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
New Books in Eastern European Studies
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What's the Difference Between the Hipsters and the Norod Joi?
i think we have to draw a distinction between active am who kicked off these protests, and they were largely the hipsters and the internet hemsters. And that's why president puttin labelled them. What's important about two thousand 11 and 12 is that the Hipsters and the nerod come together on the street, and they come toge together very comfortably. But when nevalni returns to russia, we see again a quick mobilization that. The protest itself becomes mobilizing,. because the opposition has done a very good job of saying, we are like you. We want our lives to be better, and we do not want revolution.
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