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Russian and Estonian Civil Society Discourses Compared

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Media, Culture and Society in Putin’s Russia

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The concept of civil society is open to diverse interpretations, which undoubtedly explains much of its popularity since the 1980s.1 It has appeared in such contexts as the criticism levelled against dictatorships in Latin America, the neoliberal critique of the welfare state, the antineoliberal critique of globalization, the communitarian critique of individualized modern societies, and the opposition to the Soviet-type system and the construction of democracies in Eastern and East-Central Europe. In addition to its importance in the contemporary social scientific repertoire, it has a rich history in a variety of different traditions (Keane (ed.) 1988 and Cohen and Arato 1992 are only two examples from the enormous literature on the subject).

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Alapuro, R. (2008). Russian and Estonian Civil Society Discourses Compared. In: White, S. (eds) Media, Culture and Society in Putin’s Russia. Studies in Central and Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583078_4

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