Armenia's Velvet Revolution: Authoritarian Decline and Civil Resistance in a Multipolar World by Anna Ohanyan, Laurence Broers
- Armenia's Velvet Revolution: Authoritarian Decline and Civil Resistance in a Multipolar World
- Anna Ohanyan, Laurence Broers
- Page: 288
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9781788317177
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Overview
In April 2018, Armenia experienced a remarkable popular uprising leading to the resignation of Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan and his replacement by protest leader Nikol Pashinyan. Evoking Czechoslovakia's similarly peaceful overthrow of communism 30 years previously, the uprising came to be known as Armenia's 'Velvet Revolution': a broad-based movement calling for clean government, democracy and economic reform. This volume examines how a popular protest movement, showcasing civil disobedience as a mass strategy for the first time in the post-Soviet space, overcame these unpromising circumstances. Situating the events in Armenia in their national, regional and global contexts, different contributions evaluate the causes driving Armenia's unexpected democratic turban, the reasons for regime vulnerability and the factors mediating a non-violent outcome. Drawing on comparative perspectives with democratic transitions across the world, this book will be essential reading for those interested in the regime dynamics, social movements and contested politics of contemporary Eurasia, as well as policy-makers and practitioners in the fields of democracy assistance and human rights in an increasingly multipolar world.