Protest in Putin's Russia By Mischa Gabowitsch

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Protest in Putins Russia\nby Mischa Gabowitsch\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Mischa Gabowitsch\nTitle: Protest in Putins Russia\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action\nPublisher: Polity Press\nPublication year: 2016\nISBN-13: 9780745696263\nISBN-10: 0745696260\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe Russian protests, sparked by the 2011 Duma election, have been widely portrayed as a colourful but inconsequential middle-class rebellion, confined to Moscow and organized by an unpopular opposition. In this sweeping new account of the protests, Mischa Gabowitsch challenges these journalistic clich\u00E9s, showing that they stem from wishful thinking and media bias rather than from accurate empirical analysis. Drawing on a ric.