Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia
Alongside the Arab Spring, the ''Occupy'' anti-capitalist movements in the West, and the events on the Maidan in Kiev, Russia has had its own protest movements, notably the political protests of 2011–12. As elsewhere in the world, these protests had unlikely origins, in Russia’s case spearheaded by the ''creative class''. This book examines the protest movements in Russia. It discusses the artisti...
Alongside the Arab Spring, the ''Occupy'' anti-capitalist movements in the West, and the events on the Maidan in Kiev, Russia has had its own protest movements, notably the political protests of 2011–12. As elsewhere in the world, these protests had unlikely origins, in Russia’s case spearheaded by the ''creative class''. This book examines the protest movements in Russia. It discusses the artisti...