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This article serves as an introduction to this special issue on recent developments in civil society organization and strategies in Russia. Despite the widespread assumption that the increased restrictions placed on NGO activity by the state in recent years have hampered their ability to operate, we argue that civil society in Russia continues to show signs of vitality. This is demonstrated by the fact that protests by ordinary Russians have grown and have often led to the formation of new groups and movements which have had some success in campaigning on specific issues. As the articles in this special issue highlight, one of the key tools affecting whether or not such movements can be successful in achieving their aims is that of framing. When organizations are able to frame the issue they are campaigning on in such a way as to resonate with ordinary people and avoid directly challenging the balance of power within Russia's political system, they tend to enjoy more success than those groups which tend to take a more confrontational stance and thus face greater pushback and sanction from the authorities. This serves to highlight that NGOs and other civil society groups in Russia employ a range of different strategies and enjoy very different relationships with the authorities as a result.

Changes in policy intent and implementation, and results in Soviet village society; from Khrushchev to Gorbachev.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Rethinking Soviet Socialism: The Politics of Ideological Change -- 3 Toward a New Political Economy of Socialism -- 4 Changing Views of Social Differentiation in Soviet Ideology -- 5 The End of the "National Question": Ideological Decay and Ethnic Relations in the USSR -- 6 Changing Soviet Conceptions of International Security -- 7 Gorbachev's "New Political Thinking" and Soviet National Security Policy -- 8 The Death of a Dream? Gorbachevist Revisions of Marxism-Leninism for the Third World -- 9 Conclusion -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.

Die Autoren befassen sich mit Entwicklung und Wandel der sowjetischen Raumordnungspolitik für den ländlichen Siedlungsbereich seit der Chruschtschow-Ära. Untersucht werden für Inhalte und Implementierung sowie soziale Folgen der (Um-)Siedlungspolitik und deren Implikationen für das Verhältnis zwischen Staat und (ländlicher) Gesellschaft, die mit dem Dorf-Umsiedlungs-Programm intendierten ideologischen und praktisch-politischen Ziele, dessen Auswirkungen auf die Entwicklung der ländlichen Infrastruktur (insbesondere auf den Wohnungsbau), die Rolle der Experten im Policy-Making-Prozeß und die sozial-psychologische Dimension der Umsiedlungsmaßnahmen. Begleitet von zunehmender Expertenkritik an der Umsiedlungspolitik Ende der 70er/Anfang der 80er Jahre, erfolgte zunächst eine Revision der Ziele und später die endgültige Aufgabe des Programms. Abschließend wird die Siedlungspolitik Gorbatschows im Kontext seiner ländlichen Entwicklungsstrategie skizziert. (BIOst-Klk)

A prospective study of EB virus infections was initiated in July, 1969 in the entering class of 1401 cadets, at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. and continued over 4 yr. On entry 63.5% possessed EBV antibody and 36.5 lacked EBV antibody. The rate of antibody prevalence varied with the geographic area from which the cadet originated.

Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars, this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a specifically European context. While its first half offers comparative approaches to an array of significant issues and movements, its second half assembles focused national studies that include most major European states. Throughout, these contributions are guided by a shared set of historical and social-scientific questions with a particular emphasis on political sociology, thus offering a bold and uncommonly unified survey that will be essential for scholars and students of European social movements