Putin's Preventive Counter-Revolution

Post-Soviet Authoritarianism and the Spectre of Velvet Revolution

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ID19920637
AutoresRobert Horvath (0000-0003-4992-2658, La Trobe University, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Páginas266
Data de publicação2013-02-11
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoPutin's "preventive counter-revolution" (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203101391
OpenAlexW4237241808
Open LibraryOL25259973M
ISBN9780203101391
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas31

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 and at the ballot box. It traces the formulation and implementation of the regime's two-track response, which was based on a careful analysis of the lessons of the recent 'velvet’ (or ‘coloured’) revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine. The first track was repressive: the imposition of controls on NGOs, restrictions on electoral competition, and a crackdown on opposition demonstrations. The second was the mobilisation of supporters in 'patriotic' youth organisations that employed both gang violence and 'velvet' revolutionary techniques. Drawing on a wide range of Russian-language sources, including opposition activists' blogs, this book charts the end of Russia's experiment with liberal democracy and the emergence of a new type of authoritarian order

Political science · Political Conflict and Governance · 1991 · Aufstand · Authoritarianism · Autorita rer Staat · Bekämpfung · Contre-rébellion · Counterinsurgency · Former Soviet republics · History · Insurgency · Opposition · Opposition (political science) · Opposition (science politique) · politics and government · Prevention · Resistance to Government · Révoltes · Russia · Russia & the Former Soviet Union · vladimir vladimirovich Putin (1952-)