Strebkov Denis

№ 4, 1999

• MASS PROTEST IN RUSSIA IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1990S: THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC FACTORS

  The article is devoted to the research of the economic constituent of mass protest. Analyzing on macro level the interconnection of the protesting behavior of people, moods, expectations, willingness to participate in actions of protest with the level of economic trouble, the authors make the conclusion that public actions of protest (mass meetings, manifestations, pickets, etc.) and strikes on the enterprises are of different nature and are determined by different factors. The participants' number of public actions doesn't correlate with any of the economic variables. At the same time a certain exponential dependence of the number of strikes participants on the increase of the wages indebtedness is followed. The degree of the protesting potential defined by the sociological polls also demonstrates the strong connection with the economic variables.

  DOI: 10.30570/2078-5089-1999-14-4-64-78

  Pages: 64-78