Tomila Lankina and Alexander Libman, "The Jekyll and Hyde of Soviet Policies: Endogenous Modernization, the Gulag and Post-Communist Support for Democracy"
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BBC Radio 4 documentary: Long Road to Change (with T. Lankina interview)
This is an excellent recent documentary on the resurgence of mass activism globally, on the challenges that protesters face, and on strategies that they employ to overcome those challenges. Description from the BBC website: “In an age when technology has made organising protest movements easier than ever before, journalist Zoe Williams asks why we aren't seeing …
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The Monkey Cage, Washinton Post: Comment on March 26th Russian protests
Comment on March 26th Russian protests Click here for a Russian language version of the discussion posted on Ekho Moscow
Is Putinism Sustainable? Roundtable discussion, LSE, 19 May 2016
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s confrontational foreign policy continues to impose high costs on his country, contributing to economic decline, continued corruption, and political isolation. A shrinking circle of people around the Kremlin is involved in opaque decision-making while economic and social problems are given less consideration than political and security issues. To what extent is …
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Ukraine crisis timeline and news coverage of Euromaidan protests
Coverage of the Euromaidan protests by select Russian state-controlled media (Rossiyskaya gazeta, Komsomolskaya pravda, Izvestiya newspapers; and Russia 1, Channel 1 and NTV TV channels); and independent Russian and Ukrainian media sources (Rosbalt, Interfax and Zerkalo nedeli). Lower values (“score” line) represent a tendency to portray protests as disorder, while higher values indicate a freedom …
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One-Day Workshop on Russian and Ukrainian Politics, LSE, 10 June 2016
Workshop schedule and paper abstracts. Citizen Preferences, Political Mobilization, Institutional Change, and Regime Stability in Russia and Ukraine.
Two-Day Workshop on Mass Protests, LSE, 13-14 June 2014
Comparative Workshop on Mass Protests.
