Funding Civil Society: Foreign Assistance and NGO Development in Russia

by Lisa Sundstrom and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom

This book investigates the impact that Western democracy assistance programs have had on the development of women's and soldiers' rights NGOs in Russia in the post-Soviet period. The author examines Western assistance programs and NGO sectors in seven Russian regions, and finds that the norms that Western donors promote in their civil society programs, as well as the positive or negative local political environment in each city, have a dramatic influence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804754438
• ISBN13: 9780804754439
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"