00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000009646 20200508204910 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 978-1-108-41673-3 010-0520009646 eng 324 324/OLE/Y Olena Nikolayenko Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe Cet. 1 United Kingdom ; New York Cambridge University Press 2017 ix, 255 p ; 23 cm 23 cm At 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. Political participation--Europe, Eastern. Youth--Political activity--Europe, Eastern Youth movements--Europe, Eastern