Allison Evans, IREX Scholar, University of Pennsylvania
With the “Occupy Wall Street” sit-ins gripping both the United States and the world and the riots seizing various countries of the Middle East this year as current examples, societies have long used the form of protest as expression and objection.
Thousands of years have filled our history books with significant examples of protest - some peaceful, some violent – and Russia is no exception.
In the midst of the rapid, often confusing and painful, reforms of the 1990s in Russia, why did some Russian cities experience high levels of political protest, while others remained relatively quiet?
Join us to hear IREX Scholar, Allison Evans from the University of Pennsylvania, speak about her current research on this topic, which examines the socio-political histories of three provincial Russian cities: Cherepovets, Komsomolsk-na-Amure and Volzhskiy.