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58 Russian Pol. & L. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/ruspl58 and id is 1 raw text is: RUSSIAN POLITICS & LAW Routledge 2021, VOL. 58, NOS. 1-2, 1-19 https://doi.org/10.1080/10611940.2021.2055949 Taylor&Francis Group What Is the State of Russian Society After 20 Years of Putin? Tat'iana Vorozheikina The rise of the protest movement in Moscow and other large cities in the summer and fall of 2019 returns us again to the main questions of social development in Russia over the past two decades of Putin's rule. In reflecting on our country, can we talk about an emerging civil society, or are we still dealing only with its fragmented parts? What processes dominate now in Russian society? Are we seeing degradation, the disin- tegration of social ties, subordination and adaptation to a corrupt govern- ment? Or, on the contrary, are we seeing varied and increasing manifestations of self-organization that suggest the formation of society as a historical subject that is beginning to separate from the state? In other words, are we witnessing the modernization of Russian society and the formation of integration mechanisms within it that are separate from the state and cannot be reduced to it? Or is the authoritarian government still able to maintain the traditional supremacy of a privatized state over an amorphous society?' This article naturally cannot claim to offer an exhaustive response to these questions. And it seems that no such response is currently possible, even though 20 years is a long time in the life of a society, and especially in the life of an individual. Nevertheless, we can try to identify some sort of overarching vector in the chaos of opposing and divergent processes. Pessimists and optimists Arguments about whether or not Russia has a civil society have been ongoing over the entire history of post-Soviet Russia and have not changed much. Pessimists, who predominate, believe that civil society in Russia is either nonexistent or so weak that we can only talk about its unstable English translation © 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, from the Russian text, Chto sluchilos' s rossiskim obshchestvom v putinskoe dvadtsatiletie? Neprikosnovennyi zapas, 2020, no. 129, 13-24. Tat'iana Yevgen'evna Vorozheikina is a political scientist. Translated by Lucy Gunderson. © 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC

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