TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Assessing civil society in Putin's Russia: The plight of women's crisis centers
JO  - Communist and post-communist studies
A1  - Johnson, Janet Elise
A1  - Saarinen, Aino
SP  - 41
EP  - 52
VL  - 44
IS  - 1
N2  - 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 /> 
LA  - 
SN  - 0967-067X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2011.01.002
ID  - ref1
ER  -