Governing the Locals: Local Self-Government and Ethnic Mobilization in Russia - Softcover

Lankina, Tomila V.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742530221 ISBN 13: 9780742530225

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006

Synopsis

This book examines the impact of Russia's local self-governing institutions on nationalist movement mobilization in Russia. It is the first study identifying municipalities as central to explaining aspects of ethnic or broader social activism in post-Soviet Russia. Because the book is comparative in scope, it also contributes to debates on movement dynamics and nationalist mobilization in other national and institutional settings.

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Review:

Tomila Lankina is an outstanding representative of the new generation of specialists on Russian and post-Communist politics. She combines an impressive knowledge of the political science literature with thorough fieldwork that has taken her into many different, and sometimes dangerous, parts of the former Soviet Union. Governing the Locals is a penetrating analysis of federalism Russian-style and of ethnic politics and governance in the republics and localities.--Archie Brown, Oxford University

The book's insights into grassroots politics in Russia today, and in the last years of the Soviet Union, have rarely been matched and should be taken note of by anyone with an interest in contemporary Russia.--Slavonic & East European Review, (Seer)

Governing the Locals is deserving of a wide readership, both for the wide-ranging conclusions reached and the fascinating details of local politics in three of Russia's more contentious republics.--Canadian Slavonic Papers

In order to understand social change in Russia, or any country, it is necessary to look at the local level. Things happen there first, whether one is talking about terrorism or democratization. Lankina's Governing the Locals is extremely important in this regard because it is one of a very few available works that focuses precisely on local level actors. Lankina makes a real contribution to this discussion with her detailed analysis of the local government issue.--Russian Regional Report

Lankina's study offers a useful explanation of at least one cause of relative apathy in Russian politics. Highly recommended.--CHOICE

Lankina's work stands to make a major contribution to the understanding of sub-national politics in the Soviet and post-Soviet period and should be essential reading for anyone interested in regional and local governance in today's Russia.--Europe-Asia Studies

About the Author:

Tomila V. Lankina is an associate at the World Resources Institute and a faculty fellow at American University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0742530221
• ISBN 13: 9780742530225
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232