Youth Movements and Elections in Belarus

Nikolayenko, Olena

doi:10.1080/09668136.2015.1018870

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“…‘We cannot really promote ourselves’, explains a member of a youth organization, but ‘when people come to us we provide them with information about how to be active’ 44 . According to Olena Nikolayenko (2015), youth movements are to some extent, despite political repression, a constant in the resistance against the Belarusian regime. Independent think tanks can also be included in this category.…”

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Resisting the Irresistible: ‘Failed Opposition’ in Azerbaijan and Belarus Revisited

Bedford¹,

Vinatier²

2018

Gov. & oppos.

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In recent literature on post-Soviet electoral revolutions in places where attempts at regime change through popular protest did not succeed, opposition groups are often simply regarded as ‘failed’. And yet, opposition actors exist and participate in the political life of their country. Building on the Belarusian and Azerbaijani cases, we argue that opposition actors are maintained in a ‘ghetto’, often virtual, tightly managed by the ruling authorities who exert monopolistic control over civic activities. Opposition actors adapt to the restricted conditions – accepting a certain level of dependency. They thus develop various tactics to engage with the outside, striving to reduce the ghetto walls. To this end this article proposes a typology of what we call oppositional ‘resistance models’: electoral, in the media, lobbying and through education. The models highlight what makes ‘opposition’ in authoritarian states and are a step towards a more comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon in this context.

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Section: Challenging the Ghetto: Opposition Resistance Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resisting the Irresistible: ‘Failed Opposition’ in Azerbaijan and Belarus Revisited

Bedford¹,

Vinatier²

2018

Gov. & oppos.

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“…Its leadership was accused of corruption (Roskol'nikov 1998); of forcing young people to become members (for example, by the threat that it would be harder for non-members to enrol at university) (Yazykovich 1997b); of meddling in politics by actively supporting Lukashenko (Bebenin 1997); and of hypocrisy and despotic leadership style (Korlenyuk 1997). Overall, by employing both stick and carrot to increase its membership base, in 2001 the organisation had reached a membership of 250,000, which significantly exceeded that of any other youth organisation (Nikolayenko 2015).…”

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“…All sources confirm that, in contrast with Direct Action, a grassroots organisation, the BPYU was a topdown creation (Matsevilo 2002, pp. 274-75;Laptenok 2004;Nikolayenko 2015). 51 How this actually happened is examined below.…”

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From Komsomol to the Republican Youth Union: Building a Pro-presidential Mass Youth Organisation in Post-Soviet Belarus

Silvan¹

2020

Europe-Asia Studies

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Based on extensive and diverse primary material, this article provides a detailed analysis of the development of Belarusian government-affiliated youth organisations from the late 1980s until 2002. Using a historical institutionalist approach, it examines the transformation of the Belarusian Komsomol into an independent association and the emergence of new, proactive pro-government youth organisations. The article demonstrates that, contrary to common assumptions, building a mass membership pro-presidential youth organisation in Belarus was a complex project that took years to complete. When the Belarusian Republican Youth Union finally emerged in 2002, it was a result of an interplay of many structural and agency-related factors.THE EXISTENCE OF GOVERNMENT-ORGANISED MASS MEMBERSHIP YOUTH organisations as showy mainstays of youth support for a non-democratic regime has been noted in existing literature on Belarus in particular

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“…the Baltic lands, and the Czech Republic and Slovakia, other countries developed in quite different ways, with differently evolving internal economic, political, legislative and social structures. Ukraine currently suffers from the military conflict (Khoroshun, 2015), Belarus is still considered as having a repressive political regime (Nikolayenko, 2015) and Hungary had to overcome financial crisis caused by its government ( Johnson and Barnes, 2015). All these factors, together with other events of paramount importance such as access to supranational structures associated with NATO or the European Union (Zarbá et al, 2014), have shaped business and business-related research in particular countries.…”

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Meta-analysis of business-related research in the former Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union countries

Bureš

2017

BJM

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Purpose Research focussed on various issues or perspectives of business can be considered as an important driving force for business development. The purpose of this paper is to identify the main topics and trends associated with business-related research conducted in Belarus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine. The study results contribute to a context-aware explanation of the dynamics of business-oriented research in individual countries. Design/methodology/approach This study both quantitatively and semantically analyses 6,166 abstracts indexed and abstracted in the Scopus database. Three main research questions and associated hypotheses are investigated. Three text-mining techniques were applied in the analysis of available resources, namely, word clustering, collocation statistics and correspondence analysis. Findings There is a growing trend in the quantity of business-related research publications associated with each country. Similarly, there is an increasing internationalisation and intensification process of research networks. It is possible to identify both general and specific business topics that are investigated in individual countries. Research limitations/implications The time spans investigated do not always correspond with the main events occurring at the national level. From the semantic analysis perspective, the shortage of records for specific time periods prevents a valid semantic analysis, and the results are dependent on the quality of the abstracts provided by the authors. The study results might be used as support for funding decisions or context-aware evaluation of research outcomes at both institutional and national level. Originality/value This study provides a unique insight into the development and mutual comparison of business-related research in the countries investigated.

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Youth Movements and Elections in Belarus

Cited by 9 publications

References 24 publications

Resisting the Irresistible: ‘Failed Opposition’ in Azerbaijan and Belarus Revisited

Resisting the Irresistible: ‘Failed Opposition’ in Azerbaijan and Belarus Revisited

From Komsomol to the Republican Youth Union: Building a Pro-presidential Mass Youth Organisation in Post-Soviet Belarus

Meta-analysis of business-related research in the former Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union countries

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