Civil Society and the Search for Justice in Russia

Expertly blending the historical with the theoretical, the recent with the empirical, Marsh and Gvosdev offer new insight and analysis into the ability of a nascent Russian civil society to engage effectively with the twenty-first century Russian state to ensure social, religious, and political justice.

Christopher Marsh is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. He is the author of Russia at the Polls (2001) and Making Russian Democracy Work: Social Capital, Economic Development, and Democratization (2000). Nikolas K. Gvosdev is Assistant Professor of Church-State Studies at Baylor University. He is the author of Imperial Policies and Perspectives towards Georgia, 1760-1819 (2000) and Reconciling Orthodox Tradition with Modern Democracy (2000).