@article{ref1,
title="Assessing civil society in Putin's Russia: The plight of women's crisis centers",
journal="Communist and post-communist studies",
year="2011",
author="Johnson, Janet Elise and Saarinen, Aino",
volume="44",
number="1",
pages="41-52",
abstract="The article assesses civil society in Putin's Russia through the lens of the small social movement working against gender violence. Based on questionnaires distributed to movement organizations in 2008-2009, we find significant retrenchment among the NGO segment of the movement, adding evidence to the claim of Russia's turn toward authoritarianism. However, this innovative, midlevel analysis--not the typical society-wide surveys nor the small number participant observation--also shows that the women's crisis center movement has made some in-roads in transforming the state, revealing that some democratic opportunities remain at the local level.<p />",
language="",
issn="0967-067X",
doi="10.1016/j.postcomstud.2011.01.002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2011.01.002"
}