Social Movements in Post-communist Europe and Russia
- ISBN-10
- 1138784362
- ISBN-13
- 9781138784369
- Category
- Social movements
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Authors
- Steven Saxonberg, Kerstin Jacobsson
Description
This is the first book to examine the development of post-communist social movements of the last decade focusing specifically on various types of rights-based civic activism (ranging from disability organizations and human rights activism to animal rights, gay rights and women's movements) in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia. This book is based on a special issue of East European Politics.
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