(review) The State and Civil Society in Post-Soviet Russia: The Development of a Russian Style Civil Society
The State and Civil Society in Post-Soviet Russia: The Development of a Russian Style Civil Society Argument Cultural and societal norms, which developed during the Soviet period, have continued to shape civil society arrangements in the post-Soviet period. This is because the cultural-historic legacies of both the Soviet Union and the subsequent peculiarities of Russia’s economic, social and political transformations since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Civil Society in the Soviet Union - During the Soviet period, social, economic, and political activity was closely controlled by the state - We argue that these particular relations are the roots of a civil society po-russki . The perestroika period -Even though the perestroika period led to the end of monolithic Soviet-style civil society, it did not create a space for collective action which could more effectively bridge between both halves of the hourglass. -The lack of genuine democratisation of the state and its struc...