Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: This book investigates the impact that Western democracy assistance programs have had on the development of women's and soldiers' rights NGOs in Russia in the post-Soviet period. The author examines Western assistance programs and NGO sectors in seven Russian regions, and finds that the norms that Western donors promote in their civil society programs, as well as the positive or negative local political environment in each city, have a dramatic influence on the extent to which the interactions between foreign donors and NGOs contribute to developing an NGO sector that is supportive of democracy...read more

Product Description: A vibrant civil society - characterized by the independently organized activity of people as citizens, undirected by state authority - is an essential support for the development of freedom, democracy, and prosperity. Thus it has been one important indicator of the success of post-communist transitions...read more

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Product Description: Collects papers by 15 contributors, 13 of them Russian, delivered at a conference held in Washington in February 1999. This book describes not only the human dimensions of various problems, but also the commitment and courage of the unsung founders of the new Russia. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Russia's Liberal Project analyzes the demise of Communism in Soviet Russia and the effort to establish a liberal democracy in post-Communist Russia as part of a single decade-long project of institutionalizing political liberalism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This second edition helps students discover the reasons behind their math anxiety and helps clear away the obstacles through relaxation techniques, tips on how to study for an exam, time management, and tips for the classroom. Also included is a chapter devoted to solving word problems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Robbed shortly after arriving in lawless Titusville, Duane Braddock, the monastery-raised bastard son of an outlaw and a prostitute, must learn to ride a horse, shoot a gun, and defend himself against outlaws and ladies. Original.