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Subject(s)

• Government, Resistance to—Russia (Federation)—Prevention [Browse]
• Counterinsurgency—Russia (Federation). [Browse]
• Opposition (Political science)—Russia (Federation). [Browse]
• Insurgency—Former Soviet republics [Browse]
• Russia (Federation)—Politics and government—1991-. [Browse]

Series

• BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies [More in this series]
• BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies ; 82

Summary note

This book examines the 'preventive counter-revolution,' a programme of reforms and repression that transformed the face of Russian politics during Vladimir Putin's second term as president. Kremlin propagandists hailed this programme as a defence of national sovereignty against Western attempts to foment a 'velvet revolution' in Russia. But this book shows that the Putin regime was reacting to a real domestic threat: opposition leaders and youth activists who had begun to employ 'velvet' revolutionary methods in a campaign to harness popular grievances and to challenge Putin in the streets

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Language note

English

Contents

• The diplomacy of counter-revolution
• The shock of the Orange Revolution
• The spectre of a "Moscow Maidan"
• Nashi: the mobilisation of patriotism
• The taming of civil society
• The death of politics
• The "extremists": The Other Russia and the struggle for the streets.

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ISBN

• 1-136-23490-X
• 0-203-10139-1
• 1-299-14862-X
• 1-136-23491-8
• 9780203101391

OCLC

• 828298561
• 844348441
• 827947133

Doi

10.4324/9780203101391

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