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June 19th, 2009

CDDRL Visiting Scholar Olena Nikolayenko Analyzes Post-Soviet Youth Movements

CDDRL, FSI Stanford Op-ed

Thousands of youths in the post-communist region applied nonviolent resistance methods to protest large-scale electoral fraud. Olena Nikolayenko's post-doctoral project at CDDRL examines why some youth movements were more successful than others in mobilizing populations against repressive regimes. Political learning of autocratic incumbents, her research finds, is contributing to the diminishing power of similar youth movements. +PDF+
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May 26th, 2005

A New Wave of Democratic Revolutions

On May 18, a roundtable organized jointly by CDDRL and CREEES and chaired by SIIS Senior Fellow Gail Lapidus brought together visiting scholars Temuri Yakobashvili from Georgia, Volodymyr Kulyk from Ukraine, Uladzimir Rouda from Belarus, and Wall Street Journal reporter Steve LeVine to examine the dramatic wave of democratic revolutions and protest movements, which have transformed the geopolitics of the post-Soviet region over the past two years. Read more »




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