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«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «POLITOLOGIYA. RELIGIOVEDENIE»
«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «POLITICAL SCIENCE AND RELIGION STUDIES»
ISSN 2073-3380 (Print)

List of issues > Series «Political Science and Religion Studies». 2022. Vol 42

Provincial Youth in Modern Russia and the Protest Political Agenda 2015–2021

Author(s)
S. M. Zakharov
Abstract
The article analyzes youth participation in protests in the province from 2015 to 2021. The aim of the research is to determine the level of protest potential of the provincial youth in modern Russia. The study takes a historical and comparative methods. In the course of research, the author comes to the conclusion that in the modern context the involvement of young people in the protest discourse takes place through network technologies, which are actively used by interested opposition actors. On the one hand, young people in provincial areas, where critical thinking is less developed, may be vulnerable to such signals. On the other hand, protest discourse in local spaces rarely develops further because of the pervasive political culture
About the Authors
Zakharov Sergey Mikhailovich, Candidate of Sciences (Political Science), Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Bunin Yelets State University, 28, Kommunary st., Yelets, 399770, Russian Federation, e-mail: zakharov1201@rambler.ru
For citation
Zakharov S.M. Provincial Youth in Modern Russia and the Protest Political Agenda 2015–2021. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Political Science and Religion Studies, 2022, vol. 42, pp. 9-19. https://doi.org/10.26516/2073- 3380.2022.42.9 (in Russian)
Keywords
youth protest, relative deprivation, provincial youth, protest activity, protest potential, protest triggers.
UDC
323.2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2022.42.9
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