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Peaceful Political Protest in Post-Soviet Russia through the Lens of Civil Disobedience Theory

Student: Moreeva Sofya

Supervisor: Boris Kapustin

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Politics. Economics. Philosophy (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2021

This study attempts to examine the peaceful political process in Russia through the lens of the theory of civil disobedience. The author analyzes the provisions of the works of foreign researchers that form the theoretical frame of civil disobedience, and also considers how this concept is presented in modern Russian studies. The second chapter of the work examines the possibility of going beyond the classical theory of civil disobedience and applying it to states that do not fit into the framework of a ‘nearly just’ society. Since the empirical material underlying the work is Russian protest activity, the author provides a brief description of the latter in the post-Soviet period, concluding the paper with an analysis of specific cases.

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