01763     2200229   4500001002100000005001500021008004100036020002200077035001900099041000800118082000800126084001400134100002200148245005200170250001100222260006400233300002900297520107700326650004601403650004701449650003701496INLIS00000000000964620200508204910200508|||||||||   |   |||   |||| ||eng||  a978-1-108-41673-3  0010-0520009646  aeng0 a324  a324/OLE/Y0 aOlena Nikolayenko00aYouth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe  aCet. 1  aUnited Kingdom ; New YorkbCambridge University Pressc2017  aix, 255 p ; 23 cmc23 cm  aAt the turn of the twenty-first century, a tide of nonviolent youth movements swept across Eastern Europe. Young people demanded political change in repressive political regimes that emerged since the collapse of communism. The Serbian social movement Otpor / Resistance played a vital role in bringing down Slobodan Milosevic in 2000. Inspired by Otpors example, similar challenger organizations were formed in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, and Ukraine. The youth movements, however, differed in the extent to which they could mobilize citizens against the authoritarian governments on the eve of national elections. This book argues that the movements tactics and state countermoves explain, in no small degree, divergent social movement outcomes. Using data from semi-structured interviews with former movement participants, public opinion polls, government publications, non-governmental organization (NGO) reports, and newspaper articles, the book traces state-movement interactions in five post-communist societies: Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Serbia, and Ukraine. 0aPolitical participation--Europe, Eastern. 0aYouth--Political activity--Europe, Eastern 0aYouth movements--Europe, Eastern