Opportunities and framing in the transition to democracy: The case of Russia

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Until recently, Russian sociologists couldn't study social movements in their own country because there weren't any. Today, with the explosion of collective actions in the former Soviet Union, researchers are trying to develop genuine approaches to them. Cultural and political conduciveness, opportunities, and resources are very specific to the Russian transition to democracy, and this will influence proposed explanatory models. I believe the Russian case will produce its own social movement paradigms of development and research. Meanwhile, it is important to test Western research approaches on the post-Soviet case. Such a test will define the boundaries of Western models and focus the specificities of Russian social movements.

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