This book gives a nuanced and updated view of social movements in post-communist Europe, by looking at the cases of relatively successful mobilization, by examining groups that have often been neglected in the discourse on social movements and civil society (including animal rights groups, racist movements and non-feminist family organizations), an

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Development of Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe, Kerstin Jacobsson, Steven Saxonberg; Chapter 2 Channeling and Enrollment: The Institutional Shaping of Animal Rights Activism in Poland, Kerstin Jacobsson; Chapter 3 At the Intersection of Gender and Class: Social Mobilization Around Mothers' Rights in Poland, Renata E. Hryciuk, El?bieta Korolczuk; Chapter 4 1Special thanks are due to the activists of the Hungarian home-birth movement who provided information for this chapter. I am very grateful to Gabriella Nagy and Júlia Spronz for offering updates., Katalin Fábián; Chapter 5 1This work has been prepared as part of a research project funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (grant 1751/42/2008) as well as a research project (code GAP404/10/1586) funded by the Czech Science Foundation., Steven Saxonberg; Chapter 6 From NGOs to Naught: The Rise and Fall of the Czech Gay Rights Movement, Conor O'Dwyer; Chapter 7 1 This work has been prepared as part of the research project Collective Action and Protest in East-Central Europe (code GAP404/11/0462) funded by the Czech Science Foundation., Ond?ej Císa?; Chapter 8 The Social Movement Against Immigration as the Vehicle and the Agent of Racialization in Russia, Nikolay Zakharov; Chapter 9 "Taganka 3" Group: An Instance of Local Urban Activism in Moscow, Aleh Ivanou; Chapter 10 1The research for this chapter was undertaken as part of the EU Compliance in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia (ECoBHAS) project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (Grant no. 127796)., Adam Fagan, Indraneel Sircar; Chapter 11 Mobilizing against Post-Communist Autocracy: The Challenge of Competitive Authoritarianism, Philipp Kuntz; conclusion Conclusion, Kerstin Jacobsson, Steven Saxonberg;