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2011 | 97 | 1-2 | 75-96

Article title

Hnutí a instituce: Analýza kolapsu Sovětského svazu

Title variants

EN
MOVEMENTS AND INSTITUTIONS: ANALYSING THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION

Languages of publication

EN

Abstracts

EN
This article combines institutional and social movement analysis to investigate how elite structures and mass mobilisation operated under Perestroika. We utilise the social movement theories of political opportunity, political currency and political stages in order to do so. By examining the roles of three separate periods in Soviet life, we demonstrate that these factors each had a determining role, depending on the period so chosen. The worlds of institutional structure and mass mobilisation were unconnected, at first, but then they became related in complex ways. This process saw the transformation of institutions, mass mobilisation and demobilisation within a short five year period. The result was not a transition towards democracy but the break up of a federal state.

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Contributors

author
  • Graeme Gill, University of Sydney, Australia

References

Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier
11CZAAAA09504

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.32947d36-a4e1-38b6-b8c1-4a2d697a6652
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