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As the first presenter in a symposium on social movements in the USSR, held 28 Nov 1989, Henry R. Huttenbach (City Coll, New York, NY), in In Support of Nagorno-Krabakh: Social Components of the Armenian Nationalist Movement, discusses the historical dimension of the politicogeographical dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, an area of Armenian settlement that is now part of Azerbaijan. The roots of Russian control date from the seventeenth century, when Christian Armenian emissaries urged the Romanovs to liberate the Christians in Nagorno-Karabakh from Muslim control. Centuries of changing from Muslim to Christian domination have culminated most recently in Mikhail Gorbachev's decision, disappointing the Armenian nationalist movement, to leave Nagorno-Karabakh as part of primarily Muslim Azerbaijan, under some superivision of the central Soviet government. In How Political Are the Social Movements in the Baltic Republics?, Alexandras Shtromas (Hillsdale Coll, Mich) contends that the growing social movements in the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania, & Estonia (eg, the Lithuanian Sajudis), which were originally established to implement Gorbachev's policies of glasnost & perestroika, have now become independent political movements acting against the Soviet Communist Party & in favor of their respective nations' freedom. The history of the Sajudis & their Latvian & Estonian counterparts is outlined, & their future goals are delineated. IN Pamiat' as a Social Movement, John B. Dunlop (Hoover Instit, Stanford, Calif) explains that Pamiat' is more of a fringe phenomenon than a social movement, consisting of a small group of extremists within the Russian Republic, that attracted Soviet & worldwide attention when it staged a large raucous demonstration in May 1987, culminating in a meeting with (then) first party secretary of the Mowscow City Party Committee, Boris Yeltsin. Its chief, Dmitri Vasil'ev, described here as a "Russian Mussolini," defined the primary goals of the Pamiat' as: restoration of the Russian monarchy; reestablishment of the Orthodox Church; & recognition of the Russian people as a nationality with a consultative role in their own government. Vasil'ev's interpretation of these goals, however, is riddled with historical inaccuracies, & his projected implementation measures would repel most Russians, not to mention other Soviet nationalities. In Discussion, the three contributors not only respond to questions, & entertain suggestions from members of the symposium audience. J. W. Stanton

Reasons for the emergence of global human rights and peace groups in the West, and their political and organizational survival strategies; 6 articles.

I am honored to serve as editor for this special issue of Mobilization on innovative methods in social movements research. I was delighted when Rory McVeigh originally conceived of the idea of compiling manuscripts that employed cutting edge methods of collecting and analyzing data in order to advance contemporary social movement theory. I enjoyed the opportunity to review the wide variety of scholarly works I received for this issue. The six pieces included here represent the best submissions and emerging trends in the field. Adapted from the source document.

Social Movements in Development, edited by Staffan Lindberg and Arni Sverrisson, is reviewed.

There is no dearth of literature on the politics of LGBTQ social movements across the globe. The book under review focuses on the United States of America, dealing with the prolonged and dramatic s...

Two types of leadership styles in social movements are constructed on the basis of closed or open access to the source of legitimacy. Several predictions about structural consequences of the open or closed access are then made. The types are applied to four cases: the Nazis, the Manson Family, the Millerites and Women's Liberation. The hypotheses are confirmed.

AbstractThis article reviews the literature on social movements within organizations such as colleges and universities, corporations, religious orders, and governmental agencies. It brings together work from disparate fields to advance an understanding of how movements happen within organizations to introduce students and scholars to the promise of such research.