Books from a series "Technologies"
Compiled by Dmitry Zhmutskiy The May 2006 anti- NATO demonstration at the gates of the Feodosia port started a series of protest actions in the Crimean peninsula, resulting in cancellation of the multinational Sea Breeze joint exercise with US military units and a serious setback for President Yuschenko in one of the priority issues in his political agenda, namely, transformation of Ukraine into NATO’s outpost. The success of this protest campaign was largely due to the use of non-violent means for exerting pressure on the government. The book deals with ways of organizing large-scale protest actions. It describes how local non-governmental associations can mount an effective opposition to illegal actions on the part of the central government.
The sluggish discussion of the ways of spending assets of the Stabilization Fund is unfolding against the backdrop of Finance Minister Kudrin’s stubborn insistence on using them solely for cutting down the inflation rate. Paidiev, in his sharply polemical brochure, does not argue against the need to do this - he insists, however, that simply sitting on receipts of foreign holders of the thrift box is plain stupid. The author offers a logical chain of arguments in favor of reasonable and prompt channeling of the available assets to supporting the tax reform, raising funds for the natural resource rent distribution among the population, and forming a development budget that would be much more powerful than the financing of priority national projects. Finally, Paidiev suggests that the Stabilization Fund should be transformed into an investment fund. The author’s suggestions are obviously likely to call forth strong objections, which makes them all the more interesting. 
Foreword by S.Markov This book is a concise guide to technologies behind «velvet revolutions», technologies of neutralizing the «old» power and exerting «nonviolent» pressure on it. Application of this type of know-how is only possible in countries with democratic regimes, for the benefit of third countries. These are scenarios of «stolen electoral victory», which involve placing stakes on youth. It is all about creating an illusion of widespread support and skillfully using the Internet, followed by TV. It is also about seizing the initiative, the more so that, in a democracy, the authorities have no right to react to non-formal components of opposition activities. The book is a short practical reference guide for a successful counterrevolution, calling upon the authorities and their supporters to act ahead of their adversaries. The underlying concept of this dynamic publication is that, in the present-day world with wide-open access to information, the loss of your own goals always results in their replacement by alien ones. 
Foreword by Nina Hauer One needs to get used to the fact that party activities mean work, in the first place, and work, unlike other pastimes, implies thoroughly following procedures that have been perfected by time and experience. For all the cultural differences, people are basically the same everywhere, and parties are basically the same wherever they are, so the experience of German Social Democrats deserves respect. This book is strictly practical and strictly technological. One might say it is like a reference book on housekeeping. There is no place in it for reflections on what a party may offer its long-standing, chance, potential or possible electorate. What it has is a rigid and straightforward scheme of effective action: how it should address people in this or that situation.
Introduction by Oleg Kashin Little is known about the politically indoctrinated minority of Russian youth, and this is perhaps the first publication dealing with the structure of youth movements, their announced aims and practical actions. Pavel Danilin unfolds before our eyes a kind of anatomic sketch of political life of Russian youth in the early 21st century. The author is young enough to preserve a living contact with activists of youth movements, and experienced enough to retain the necessary analytical distance from the subject of his studies.
Foreword by Leonid Paidiev The YUKOS case is one of the main issues of Russian politics. However, it is rarely analyzed in substance. This book is an attempt at filling the gap in public political awareness by unveiling, in a most accessible manner, the schemes of machinations with public property that were employed to create the YUKOS industrial empire. This task is accomplished in a most accessible manner for a general reader.
Foreword by Dmitry Korchinsky The book is written in a manner which gives you an impression as though the author were using opera-glasses the other way around in order to scrutinize the variety of political actors’ successful and unsuccessful attempts to achieve their goals by shaking off constitutional constrains. One might think that the author is impartial in his observations like an entomologist. It is only after reading the book to the end that the reader comes to realize that the narration reflects the author’s genuinely passionate rejection of pseudo-revolutionary inventions.
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