Olga Onuch
Biographic Data
| ID | 336664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olga Onuch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olga |
| FAMILY NAME | Onuch |
| SIGNATURE | ONUCH O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6442-035X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 298 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Introduction
A duty to defend
When a society comes under attack, what distinguishes citizens who engage in the war effort from those who do not? And, recognising the multi-dimensionality of citizen wartime engagement, what explains variation in the mode, type, and degree of participation? Employing five waves of original, repeated cross-sectional survey data from Ukraine (2022-2024), we operationalize mode, type, and degree of civilian wartime engagement, proposing a theory o…
Fighting for Europe
What drives ordinary citizens to want their country to join or stay in the European Union (EU)? Whilst scholarship addressed value‐based dispositions as drivers of pro‐EU positions, material benefits dominate explanations of support for EU accession and membership. New research suggests that it is precisely the growing import of being an adherent of liberal democratic values that drove citizens in countries as disparate as Ukraine, Poland and Bel…
The Zelensky Effect
How was Ukraine able to stand up and defend its independence against Russia's all-out invasion in 2022? One cannot understand these historic events without understanding Zelensky, the country and its people. What makes Zelensky most extraordinary in war is his very ordinariness as a Ukrainian, though he is "ordinary" in a way that not everyone could be, in part because of skills honed in a long career at the intersection of entertainment, media, …
The Dynamics of Mass Mobilization in Belarus
How can and should we analyze mass mobilization and its outcomes in authoritarian (and potentially democratizing) states as social scientists? Are there any distinctive features to the study of mass mobilization and its outcomes in Eastern Europe? And how much should we focus on comparative analyses versus context and country specificities? The case of the 2020 mass mobilization in Belarus offers an opportunity to engage with and answer these que…
Flowers, Tractors, & Telegram
Who are the people who, in the face of extreme repression, unexpectedly take to the streets en masse in an authoritarian state? This article aims to answer this question with reference to the case of the Belarusian anti-Lukashenka mass mobilization of 2020. It employs unique data from an original online protest survey among citizens of Belarus who were 18 or older and residing in the country at the time of the protests (Onuch et. al.; MOBILISE 20…
European Ukrainians and their fight against Russian invasion
Is there evidence of significant ethno‐linguistic/ethno‐national rallying around the nation in Ukraine—as social science would have us expect in times of conflict? And, if so, might we expect this ethno‐linguistic/ethno‐national identity to rise with the prolongation of war? Or instead, is Ukrainian “civic‐ness” the primary rally call that shaped and shapes collective identity in Ukraine? And if this collective identity is not ethno‐linguistic in…
The Belarus crisis
His symposium employs established social science theory to frame and place into comparative perspective the case of Belarusian mass mobilization that began in August 2020. We not only argue and explain how this is a case of mass mobilization that occurred in a competitive authoritarian context, but also that is a far more “typical” example (rather than an outlier) of protest mobilization occurring in political repressive contexts. We propose both…
Anti-regime action and geopolitical polarization
Do geopolitical orientations distinguish anti-Lukashenka protesters from non-protesters in Belarus? Employing data from an original online protest survey among 18+year-old citizens of Belarus residing in the country (MOBILISE 2020, n= 17, 174) fielded 18August2020–29January2021, this paper compares protesters (n = 11, 719) to non-protesters (n = 5, 455) to better understand the dispositions that distinguish them. First, our logistic regression an…
Why Ukrainians Are Rallying Around Democracy
In democratizing countries it seems to make sense that any prolonged crisis will turn citizens away from democracy, from its "rules of the game," and from the institutions tasked with upholding them. If ever there was such a country, surely it is Ukraine. Long beset by political instability and corruption, it has in recent years seen its crises become biblical: pestilence (in the form of covid-19) and war (in the form of Russian aggression and la…
Mobilization, Mass Perceptions, and (Dis)information
When people join in moments of mass protest, what role do different media sources play in their mobilization? Do the same media sources align with positive views of mass mobilizations among the public in their aftermath? And, what is the relationship between media consumption patterns and believing disinformation about protest events? Addressing these questions helps us to better understand not only what brings crowds onto the streets, but also w…
Capturing ethnicity
Building on past survey-based studies of ethnic identity, we employ the caseof Ukraine to demonstrate the importance of taking seriously themultidimensionality of ethnicity, even in a country that is regarded asdeeply divided. Drawing on relational theory, we identify four dimensions of ethnicity that are each important in distinctive ways in Ukraine: individual language preference, language embeddedness, ethnolinguistic identity, and nationality…
Studying identity in Ukraine
While it is common wisdom that "identity matters" in Ukrainian politics, we still lack a robust understanding of precisely when and how it matters.Reflecting challenges facing the broader interdisciplinary field of comparative identity politics, authors frequently bring to their analyses very different notions of the nature of identity itself, skipping a rigorous examination of these notions in an effort to get right to documenting the effects of…
Believing Facts in the Fog of War
How do people form beliefs about the factual content of major events when established geopolitical orders are violently challenged? Here, we address the tragic events of 2 May 2014, in Odesa, Ukraine. There, Euromaidan protest movement supporters and opponents clashed following Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the onset of the Donbas conflict, culminating in the worst civilian death toll the city had seen since World War II. Shortly after, we su…
The Maidan in Movement
The Maidan protests provide us with insights into Ukrainian society and the dynamics of mobilisation more generally. Based on the EuroMaidan Protest Participant Survey, on-site rapid interviews with protesters, interviews with politicians, activists and journalists, and focus groups with ordinary citizens and activists, this essay maps the actors, claims and frames of each phase in the protest cycle. It highlights the diversity of actors and the …
Facebook Helped Me Do It’
This article examines the role of I nformation C ommunication T echnologies ( ICTs ) and, specifically, social media in the EuroMaidan mobilization process. Based on extensive data collection (surveys, interviews, focus groups, and digital archival research), this article argues that, while social media was not the only mechanism behind the mobilization of millions of U krainians, it was an important part of the larger ‘tool‐kit’ drawn upon by pr…
EuroMaidan Protests in Ukraine
Employing original, on-site EuroMaidan Protest-Participant Survey data collected by the author in Kyiv between November 26, 2013, and January 13, 2014, triangulated with interview, focus group, and documentary data, the article contextualizes who was the average EuroMaidan protester and what did they want? Yet, the main focus is on the question of how the protest participants were mobilized. Making a contribution to several ongoing debates regard…
Context Is Only Part of the Puzzle
As touched upon in the introduction, it is common practice for political scientists to infer causal implications of short-term contextual factors, such as political or economic crises, in the production of mass mobilization (Åslund and McFaul 2006, Birn 2005, Eckstein 2001, Epstien 2004, Giarracca and Teubal 2001, Tucker 2007). In the case of Ukraine, a political crisis in the form of election fraud, as noted by Tucker (2007), and foreign influen…
Epilogue
In the months just prior to this book going to press, on 24 November 2013, exactly nine years after the Orange Revolution, a new moment of mass mobilization stunned observers of Ukrainian democratization. The first calls to protests by activists and journalists began on 21 November, following President Yanukovych’s government’s announcement that he will not go ahead with signing the Trade Association Agreement with the European Union, an agreemen…
Setting Precedents
Now that we have mapped the historical foundations of activism, helping us understand the important legacy of mobilization in both countries, we can turn to the next stage of the mobilization process. As explained in the introduction, analyses of the Ukrainian (2004) and Argentine (2001) ‘moments’ of mass mobilizations have predominantly focused on structural variables. Medium-term ‘opportunity structures’, including international democracy promo…
Introduction
Moments of mass mobilization, like those in Argentina (2001) and Ukraine (2004), tend to catch governments and analysts by surprise. These are moments when millions of previously disengaged ‘ordinary’ citizens 1 join activists in protests en masse , making regime change likely and systemic (social, economic or political) transformation possible. First the media, then social scientists, scramble to understand and explain the presence of ‘ordinary’…
The Duty to Protest
Even in the presence of the key variables discussed earlier, without the participation of ‘ordinary’ citizens we can, at most, expect to observe a large protest event organized by activists and opposition insiders. Activists represent a small portion of the population and are expected to take part in some form of collective action. As noted earlier, ‘ordinary’ citizens are composed of various socio-economic classes, ages, genders, ethnicities and…
The Activist and Elite Interaction and Information Exchange Game
We have thus far mapped out the different developments and structural factors of the mobilization process leading to mass protest. In order to place the moments of mass mobilization in context we traced the longer history of activism, we analysed medium-term and contextual structural variables, and investigated how these variables help us identify how patterns of mobilization and crises set precedents for actor coalitions, and set the stage again…
Theoretical Framework for Comparative Analysis of Mass Mobilization
Before any attempt to answer the main question regarding mass mobilization is made, we first need to establish a theoretical framework for the discussion and analysis to come. As noted earlier, this book is novel in that it presents a detailed comparison of the phenomenon of mass mobilization in two countries, in two different regions, both at the time undergoing recent democratization. Thus, before we are able to move forward with the analysis, …
Mapping Moments and Movements in Ukraine and Eastern Europe 1920–2004
Moments of mass mobilization, such as those experienced in Argentina (2001) and Ukraine (2004), do not occur in a vacuum. And thus, we return to the first question of this study: Are the patterns of mobilization actually different in democratizing states with differing authoritarian legacies such as those in EE and LA; Can we identify similar patterns and types of social mobilization in different regions, despite variation in historical legacies?…
Capturing ethnicity
Building on past survey-based studies of ethnic identity, we employ the caseof Ukraine to demonstrate the importance of taking seriously themultidimensionality of ethnicity, even in a country that is regarded asdeeply divided. Drawing on relational theory, we identify four dimensions of ethnicity that are each important in distinctive ways in Ukraine: individual language preference, language embeddedness, ethnolinguistic identity, and nationality…
The Maidan and Beyond
Employing the Ukrainian Protest Project survey findings, this article answers the following questions: Who joined in the EuroMaidan protests? When? Why? Is the EuroMaidan a continuation of, or a diversion from, the ‘Orange Revolution’? What are the main implications of EuroMaidan protest participation for democratization? The article focuses on the phenomenon of the growing middle class as a political constituency in Ukraine; it explains how the …
The Maidan in Movement
The Maidan protests provide us with insights into Ukrainian society and the dynamics of mobilisation more generally. Based on the EuroMaidan Protest Participant Survey, on-site rapid interviews with protesters, interviews with politicians, activists and journalists, and focus groups with ordinary citizens and activists, this essay maps the actors, claims and frames of each phase in the protest cycle. It highlights the diversity of actors and the …
EuroMaidan Protests in Ukraine
Employing original, on-site EuroMaidan Protest-Participant Survey data collected by the author in Kyiv between November 26, 2013, and January 13, 2014, triangulated with interview, focus group, and documentary data, the article contextualizes who was the average EuroMaidan protester and what did they want? Yet, the main focus is on the question of how the protest participants were mobilized. Making a contribution to several ongoing debates regard…
Mapping Mass Mobilization
Through a paired comparison of two moments of mass mobilization, in Ukraine and Argentina, focusing on the role of different actors involved, this text maps out a multi-layered sequence of events lead
Studying identity in Ukraine
While it is common wisdom that "identity matters" in Ukrainian politics, we still lack a robust understanding of precisely when and how it matters.Reflecting challenges facing the broader interdisciplinary field of comparative identity politics, authors frequently bring to their analyses very different notions of the nature of identity itself, skipping a rigorous examination of these notions in an effort to get right to documenting the effects of…
Why Ukrainians Are Rallying Around Democracy
In democratizing countries it seems to make sense that any prolonged crisis will turn citizens away from democracy, from its "rules of the game," and from the institutions tasked with upholding them. If ever there was such a country, surely it is Ukraine. Long beset by political instability and corruption, it has in recent years seen its crises become biblical: pestilence (in the form of covid-19) and war (in the form of Russian aggression and la…
Facebook Helped Me Do It’
This article examines the role of I nformation C ommunication T echnologies ( ICTs ) and, specifically, social media in the EuroMaidan mobilization process. Based on extensive data collection (surveys, interviews, focus groups, and digital archival research), this article argues that, while social media was not the only mechanism behind the mobilization of millions of U krainians, it was an important part of the larger ‘tool‐kit’ drawn upon by pr…
European Ukrainians and their fight against Russian invasion
Is there evidence of significant ethno‐linguistic/ethno‐national rallying around the nation in Ukraine—as social science would have us expect in times of conflict? And, if so, might we expect this ethno‐linguistic/ethno‐national identity to rise with the prolongation of war? Or instead, is Ukrainian “civic‐ness” the primary rally call that shaped and shapes collective identity in Ukraine? And if this collective identity is not ethno‐linguistic in…
The Belarus crisis
His symposium employs established social science theory to frame and place into comparative perspective the case of Belarusian mass mobilization that began in August 2020. We not only argue and explain how this is a case of mass mobilization that occurred in a competitive authoritarian context, but also that is a far more “typical” example (rather than an outlier) of protest mobilization occurring in political repressive contexts. We propose both…
Anti-regime action and geopolitical polarization
Do geopolitical orientations distinguish anti-Lukashenka protesters from non-protesters in Belarus? Employing data from an original online protest survey among 18+year-old citizens of Belarus residing in the country (MOBILISE 2020, n= 17, 174) fielded 18August2020–29January2021, this paper compares protesters (n = 11, 719) to non-protesters (n = 5, 455) to better understand the dispositions that distinguish them. First, our logistic regression an…
Believing Facts in the Fog of War
How do people form beliefs about the factual content of major events when established geopolitical orders are violently challenged? Here, we address the tragic events of 2 May 2014, in Odesa, Ukraine. There, Euromaidan protest movement supporters and opponents clashed following Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the onset of the Donbas conflict, culminating in the worst civilian death toll the city had seen since World War II. Shortly after, we su…
The Dynamics of Mass Mobilization in Belarus
How can and should we analyze mass mobilization and its outcomes in authoritarian (and potentially democratizing) states as social scientists? Are there any distinctive features to the study of mass mobilization and its outcomes in Eastern Europe? And how much should we focus on comparative analyses versus context and country specificities? The case of the 2020 mass mobilization in Belarus offers an opportunity to engage with and answer these que…
Flowers, Tractors, & Telegram
Who are the people who, in the face of extreme repression, unexpectedly take to the streets en masse in an authoritarian state? This article aims to answer this question with reference to the case of the Belarusian anti-Lukashenka mass mobilization of 2020. It employs unique data from an original online protest survey among citizens of Belarus who were 18 or older and residing in the country at the time of the protests (Onuch et. al.; MOBILISE 20…
Mobilization, Mass Perceptions, and (Dis)information
When people join in moments of mass protest, what role do different media sources play in their mobilization? Do the same media sources align with positive views of mass mobilizations among the public in their aftermath? And, what is the relationship between media consumption patterns and believing disinformation about protest events? Addressing these questions helps us to better understand not only what brings crowds onto the streets, but also w…
Fighting for Europe
What drives ordinary citizens to want their country to join or stay in the European Union (EU)? Whilst scholarship addressed value‐based dispositions as drivers of pro‐EU positions, material benefits dominate explanations of support for EU accession and membership. New research suggests that it is precisely the growing import of being an adherent of liberal democratic values that drove citizens in countries as disparate as Ukraine, Poland and Bel…
A duty to defend
When a society comes under attack, what distinguishes citizens who engage in the war effort from those who do not? And, recognising the multi-dimensionality of citizen wartime engagement, what explains variation in the mode, type, and degree of participation? Employing five waves of original, repeated cross-sectional survey data from Ukraine (2022-2024), we operationalize mode, type, and degree of civilian wartime engagement, proposing a theory o…
Context Is Only Part of the Puzzle
As touched upon in the introduction, it is common practice for political scientists to infer causal implications of short-term contextual factors, such as political or economic crises, in the production of mass mobilization (Åslund and McFaul 2006, Birn 2005, Eckstein 2001, Epstien 2004, Giarracca and Teubal 2001, Tucker 2007). In the case of Ukraine, a political crisis in the form of election fraud, as noted by Tucker (2007), and foreign influen…
Epilogue
In the months just prior to this book going to press, on 24 November 2013, exactly nine years after the Orange Revolution, a new moment of mass mobilization stunned observers of Ukrainian democratization. The first calls to protests by activists and journalists began on 21 November, following President Yanukovych’s government’s announcement that he will not go ahead with signing the Trade Association Agreement with the European Union, an agreemen…
Setting Precedents
Now that we have mapped the historical foundations of activism, helping us understand the important legacy of mobilization in both countries, we can turn to the next stage of the mobilization process. As explained in the introduction, analyses of the Ukrainian (2004) and Argentine (2001) ‘moments’ of mass mobilizations have predominantly focused on structural variables. Medium-term ‘opportunity structures’, including international democracy promo…
Introduction
Moments of mass mobilization, like those in Argentina (2001) and Ukraine (2004), tend to catch governments and analysts by surprise. These are moments when millions of previously disengaged ‘ordinary’ citizens 1 join activists in protests en masse , making regime change likely and systemic (social, economic or political) transformation possible. First the media, then social scientists, scramble to understand and explain the presence of ‘ordinary’…
The Duty to Protest
Even in the presence of the key variables discussed earlier, without the participation of ‘ordinary’ citizens we can, at most, expect to observe a large protest event organized by activists and opposition insiders. Activists represent a small portion of the population and are expected to take part in some form of collective action. As noted earlier, ‘ordinary’ citizens are composed of various socio-economic classes, ages, genders, ethnicities and…
The Activist and Elite Interaction and Information Exchange Game
We have thus far mapped out the different developments and structural factors of the mobilization process leading to mass protest. In order to place the moments of mass mobilization in context we traced the longer history of activism, we analysed medium-term and contextual structural variables, and investigated how these variables help us identify how patterns of mobilization and crises set precedents for actor coalitions, and set the stage again…
Theoretical Framework for Comparative Analysis of Mass Mobilization
Before any attempt to answer the main question regarding mass mobilization is made, we first need to establish a theoretical framework for the discussion and analysis to come. As noted earlier, this book is novel in that it presents a detailed comparison of the phenomenon of mass mobilization in two countries, in two different regions, both at the time undergoing recent democratization. Thus, before we are able to move forward with the analysis, …
Mapping Moments and Movements in Ukraine and Eastern Europe 1920–2004
Moments of mass mobilization, such as those experienced in Argentina (2001) and Ukraine (2004), do not occur in a vacuum. And thus, we return to the first question of this study: Are the patterns of mobilization actually different in democratizing states with differing authoritarian legacies such as those in EE and LA; Can we identify similar patterns and types of social mobilization in different regions, despite variation in historical legacies?…
Conclusions
As we now see, crisis-related mass mobilization is a multi-actor, multi-step phenomenon. It does not come out of nowhere but rather is built upon a long-term process of mobilization. Different actors enter into the mobilization equation at different stages, their motivations and access to information are also different and they are affected by their interaction with other actors as well as by past precedents. In this concluding chapter we can pul…
Mapping Moments and Movements in Argentina and Latin America 1920–2001
Social movements in LA seem to follow a similar pattern of busts and booms to those in EE. The main difference is that the claims through which mobilization has been framed seem to be almost opposite. Whereas liberal and nationalist ideas were combined in EE, socialist and socio-economic claims were the key in predominant opposition movements in LA. Based on Argentine interviewees’ responses, key protest events and SMOs were traced historically —…
Mapping Mass Mobilization
Through a paired comparison of two moments of mass mobilization, in Ukraine and Argentina, focusing on the role of different actors involved, this text maps out a multi-layered sequence of events lead
The Maidan and Beyond
Employing the Ukrainian Protest Project survey findings, this article answers the following questions: Who joined in the EuroMaidan protests? When? Why? Is the EuroMaidan a continuation of, or a diversion from, the ‘Orange Revolution’? What are the main implications of EuroMaidan protest participation for democratization? The article focuses on the phenomenon of the growing middle class as a political constituency in Ukraine; it explains how the …
Facebook Helped Me Do It’
This article examines the role of I nformation C ommunication T echnologies ( ICTs ) and, specifically, social media in the EuroMaidan mobilization process. Based on extensive data collection (surveys, interviews, focus groups, and digital archival research), this article argues that, while social media was not the only mechanism behind the mobilization of millions of U krainians, it was an important part of the larger ‘tool‐kit’ drawn upon by pr…
EuroMaidan Protests in Ukraine
Employing original, on-site EuroMaidan Protest-Participant Survey data collected by the author in Kyiv between November 26, 2013, and January 13, 2014, triangulated with interview, focus group, and documentary data, the article contextualizes who was the average EuroMaidan protester and what did they want? Yet, the main focus is on the question of how the protest participants were mobilized. Making a contribution to several ongoing debates regard…
The Maidan in Movement
The Maidan protests provide us with insights into Ukrainian society and the dynamics of mobilisation more generally. Based on the EuroMaidan Protest Participant Survey, on-site rapid interviews with protesters, interviews with politicians, activists and journalists, and focus groups with ordinary citizens and activists, this essay maps the actors, claims and frames of each phase in the protest cycle. It highlights the diversity of actors and the …
Capturing ethnicity
Building on past survey-based studies of ethnic identity, we employ the caseof Ukraine to demonstrate the importance of taking seriously themultidimensionality of ethnicity, even in a country that is regarded asdeeply divided. Drawing on relational theory, we identify four dimensions of ethnicity that are each important in distinctive ways in Ukraine: individual language preference, language embeddedness, ethnolinguistic identity, and nationality…
Studying identity in Ukraine
While it is common wisdom that "identity matters" in Ukrainian politics, we still lack a robust understanding of precisely when and how it matters.Reflecting challenges facing the broader interdisciplinary field of comparative identity politics, authors frequently bring to their analyses very different notions of the nature of identity itself, skipping a rigorous examination of these notions in an effort to get right to documenting the effects of…
Believing Facts in the Fog of War
How do people form beliefs about the factual content of major events when established geopolitical orders are violently challenged? Here, we address the tragic events of 2 May 2014, in Odesa, Ukraine. There, Euromaidan protest movement supporters and opponents clashed following Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the onset of the Donbas conflict, culminating in the worst civilian death toll the city had seen since World War II. Shortly after, we su…
Mobilization, Mass Perceptions, and (Dis)information
When people join in moments of mass protest, what role do different media sources play in their mobilization? Do the same media sources align with positive views of mass mobilizations among the public in their aftermath? And, what is the relationship between media consumption patterns and believing disinformation about protest events? Addressing these questions helps us to better understand not only what brings crowds onto the streets, but also w…
The Belarus crisis
His symposium employs established social science theory to frame and place into comparative perspective the case of Belarusian mass mobilization that began in August 2020. We not only argue and explain how this is a case of mass mobilization that occurred in a competitive authoritarian context, but also that is a far more “typical” example (rather than an outlier) of protest mobilization occurring in political repressive contexts. We propose both…
Anti-regime action and geopolitical polarization
Do geopolitical orientations distinguish anti-Lukashenka protesters from non-protesters in Belarus? Employing data from an original online protest survey among 18+year-old citizens of Belarus residing in the country (MOBILISE 2020, n= 17, 174) fielded 18August2020–29January2021, this paper compares protesters (n = 11, 719) to non-protesters (n = 5, 455) to better understand the dispositions that distinguish them. First, our logistic regression an…
Why Ukrainians Are Rallying Around Democracy
In democratizing countries it seems to make sense that any prolonged crisis will turn citizens away from democracy, from its "rules of the game," and from the institutions tasked with upholding them. If ever there was such a country, surely it is Ukraine. Long beset by political instability and corruption, it has in recent years seen its crises become biblical: pestilence (in the form of covid-19) and war (in the form of Russian aggression and la…
The Zelensky Effect
How was Ukraine able to stand up and defend its independence against Russia's all-out invasion in 2022? One cannot understand these historic events without understanding Zelensky, the country and its people. What makes Zelensky most extraordinary in war is his very ordinariness as a Ukrainian, though he is "ordinary" in a way that not everyone could be, in part because of skills honed in a long career at the intersection of entertainment, media, …
The Dynamics of Mass Mobilization in Belarus
How can and should we analyze mass mobilization and its outcomes in authoritarian (and potentially democratizing) states as social scientists? Are there any distinctive features to the study of mass mobilization and its outcomes in Eastern Europe? And how much should we focus on comparative analyses versus context and country specificities? The case of the 2020 mass mobilization in Belarus offers an opportunity to engage with and answer these que…
Flowers, Tractors, & Telegram
Who are the people who, in the face of extreme repression, unexpectedly take to the streets en masse in an authoritarian state? This article aims to answer this question with reference to the case of the Belarusian anti-Lukashenka mass mobilization of 2020. It employs unique data from an original online protest survey among citizens of Belarus who were 18 or older and residing in the country at the time of the protests (Onuch et. al.; MOBILISE 20…
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