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- Title: Nyetizdat: How the Internet is Building Civil Society in Russia (Russian Outlook)
- Author : AEI Outlook Series
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 88 KB
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Of course, just as today's authoritarian Russia is not the totalitarian Soviet Union of the 1970s, so too does nyetizdat differ from samizdat, not only in its medium but also in the regime's management of it. Unlike the producers and consumers of nyetizdat, those caught publishing, disseminating, and reading samizdat could be fired from their jobs and expelled from colleges; at worst they were sent to prisons and camps. Samizdat counted tens of thousands of readers; nyetizdat, millions. Perhaps most importantly, unlike samizdat, the Russian Web is indispensible not just for the dissemination of information and uncensored national debate; with open democratic politics a sham, the Internet has rapidly evolved into the main alternative public platform and the engine of grassroots self-organization, at once a national "town hall" and party headquarters, vital to the emergence and maintenance of thousands of social and political movements. (3) Penetration and Dynamics