Kulmala, State and Society in Small-Town Russia - A feminist-ethnographic inquiry into the boundaries of society in the finnish-russian borderland

This book is about state-society interrelations in contemporary Russia. A core question is: How do Russian citizens relate to the Russian state and more broadly to other public-sector institutions? This question is investigated through citizens' involvement in civil society by asking: What kinds of organizational civic activities occur? How are these organized forms of civic activity interwoven with the state and public structures? Finally, why do particular forms of engagement occur? The...