17. Communist/Post-communist Countries

Ellen P. Carnaghan, Saint Louis University

Motivation or Deterrence? Testing the Competing Effects of Democracy Promotion and Autocratic Intervention on Democratic Movements in Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes - Peter John Chereson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

People's Movement in Support of the State: Pensioners' Organizations in Russia - Natalia Forrat, University of Michigan

Social Media and the New Russian Protest of 2017–2018: Actors, Motives and Impact - Mikhail Zherebtsov, Carleton University; Serge Goussev, Carleton University

Varieties of Control: Election Restrictions in Russia's Regions - Megan Hauser, University of North Georgia

Ellen P. Carnaghan, Saint Louis University

Marsha McGraw Olive, Johns Hopkins SAIS