Varieties of Russian Activism: State-Society Contestation in Everyday Life

Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Everyday Activism: Tracking the Evolution of Russian State and Society Relations / Jeremy Morris, Andrei Semenov, and Regina Smyth
Part 1: The Building Blocks of Everyday Activism: Identity, Networks, and Social Trust / Regina Smyth
	2. Cultural Production as Activism: National Theaters, Philharmonics, and Cultural Organizations in Russia’s Regional Capitals / Katie L. Stewart
	3. The Promotion of Minority Languages in Russia’s Ethnic Republics: Social Media and Grassroots Activities / Guzel Yusupova
	4. From Neighbors to Activists: Shared Grievances and Collective Solutions / Regina Smyth, Madeline McCann, and Katherine Hitchcock
Part 2: Organizational Roles in Mobilization for Activism: Communication, Cooperation, and Conjunction / Jeremy Morris
	5. Social Activism in the Russian Orthodox Church / John P. Burgess
	6. The River of Urban Resistance: Renovation and New Civic Infrastructures in Moscow / Anna Zhelnina
	7. Activists and Experiential Entanglement in Russian Labor Organizing / Jeremy Morris
	8. Skateboarding Together: Generational Civic Activism and Nontransition to Politics in Sosnovyi Bor / Anna A. Dekalchuk and Ivan S. Grigoriev
Part 3: Institutional Environment and Opportunity Structures for Urban Activism / Andrei Semenov
	9. Policy Activism in Urban Governance: The Case of Master Plan Development in Perm / Eleonora Minaeva
	10. Urban Planning and Civic Activism / Carola Neugebauer, Andrei Semenov, Irina Shevtsova, and Daniela Zupan
	11. Manipulating Public Discontent in Russia: The Role of Trade Unions in the Protests against Pension Reform / Irina Meyer-Olimpieva
	12. Active Urbanites in an Authoritarian Regime: Aleksei Navalny’s Presidential Campaign / Jan Matti Dollbaum, Andrei Semenov, and Elena Sirotkina
	13. Why Grassroots Activism Matters / Jeremy Morris, Andrei Semenov, and Regina Smyth
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