Civil activism without NGOs: The Communist Party as a civil society substitute

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NOTES

1. Uryupinskaya Pravda, 30 March 2000.

2. Uryupinskaya Pravda, 28 December 2000.

3. Cossack organizations are relatively successful in the "frontier" regions of south Russia, which border the ethnic republics of North Caucasus, but that was not the case for quiet Uryupinsk.

4. Nadezhda Andreeva, "Uryupinsk-brand rossiyskoi provintsii," Gorodskie vesti (Volgograd), 12 February 2002.

5. The difference in figures between Andreeva and Sushko was probably caused by the mayor's inclusion of chairs of "house committees" (domovie komitety), which play a role similar to that of street committees in big apartment buildings. According to the official site of Uryupinsk, there are forty-one street committees and forty-seven house committees in the city. See .

6. Yadviga Yuferova, "Kto ne byl v Uryupinske, tot ne byl v Rossii .... Tak schitaet mer goroda Valerii Sushko [interview]," Rossiiskaya gazeta, 27 October 2001.

7. Dmitri Petrov, "Uryupinsk kak zerkalo russkoi demokratii" (Uryupinsk as a mirror of Russian democracy), Russkii Zhurnal, .

8. Uryupinsk official site, .

9. See: "Kontseptsiya programmy 'Malye goroda Rossii,"' Open Society Institute, .

10. "Velikaya Uryupinskaya Revolutsiya: Beseda Dmitriya Petorva s Igorem Babichevym," Russkii Zhurnal, .

11. Valery Sushko positions himself as an apolitical figure. He, however, is very popular in Uryupinsk; in the local elections in December 2000 Sushko easily took over KPRF candidate Tamara Gornyakova (34.9 percent to 14.75 percent). See Uryupinskaya Pravda, 28 December 2000.

12. Yuferova, "Kto ne byl v Uryupinske, tot ne byl v Rossii."

13. Stenogramma mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii po voprosu "Mestnaya demokratiya osnova demokraticheskoi sistemy: Zakonodatel'nye aspekty usileniya mestnoi demokratii v Rossiiskoi Federatsii," .

Ivan Kurilla is an associate professor of history and the chair of area studies and international relations at Volgograd State University, Russia.