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Citizenship and the Social Contract in Post-Soviet Russia
Russia does not have a social contract in which citizens have traded political quiescence for improving
standards of living. Rather, state-society relations are defined more as a divorce in which citizens exchange quiescence for economic autonomy, not prosperity. In these conditions, citizens have little loyalty to the regime if it violates the terms of the deal. The question remains, however, whether civil society activists can redefine citizenship to mean that an active population forces public officials to obey the law, at least in some cases.
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