Table of Contents

List of Acronyms and Russian TermsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Passages1. The Specialist Rebellion in Moscow and the Genesis of a Revolutionary Situation2. The Rise of Democratic Russia3. Democrats on the Offensive4. August 1991 and the Decline of Russia's Democratic Movement5. InterregnumAppendix: English Translation of Russian Questionnaire Used in the Survey in Chapter OneNotesBibliographyIndex

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Reconstructs the processes leading from Gorbachev's perestroika's reforms, to the rise of Putin's "soft authoritarianism," in ways that shed new light on processes of revolutionary change in recent Russian history

About the Author

Marc Garcelon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Middlebury College.

Reviews

"The book is helpful in recalling and explaining what transpired in that turbulent period." Slavic Review "Garcelon makes an important contribution to the understanding of the role the educated middle class, intellectuals, and experts played during Gorbachev's reforms and how they were abandoned by Yeltsin. The book offers a fine-tuned presentation of the social structure of late Soviet Union and the early month of post-Soviet Russia." Ivan Szelenyi "Garcelon presents a detailed examination of an important story: the rise and fall of the Democratic Russia movement (DR). He demonstrates persuasively that the unleashing of perestroika precipitated the creation of an asymmetrical matrix of political opportunities that was advantageous to political entrepreneurs networking within the ranks of the Moscow-based intelligentsia...One of Garcelon's major accomplishments is that his carefully crafted research, which illuminates the organizational genesis of DR and the social profile of its activists, provides a useful map of politically mobilized, late-Soviet Moscow. The other accomplishment for which Garcelon should be commended is his cogent analysis of DR's heterogeneity." Perspectives on Politics "Garcelon successfully employs the feudal model as an explanation for the failure of central authority and the later rise of violent oligarchies by the last 1990s in Russia...This work with its feudal paradigm provides both a valuable reference for the period as well as a new methodology for examining Russia's political and economic future." Sibrica 2007