Mihai Varga

How Political Opportunities Strengthen the Far Right: Understanding the Rise in Far-Right Militancy in Russia

Abstract This article provides an overview of recent activities of the far right in Russia (2004–2006) and shows how formal organisations of the far right interact with skinhead subcultures and local communities. It argues that government actions have facilitated an increase in recent far-right militancy (2004–2006) in Russia: the authorities have provided the far-right with political opportunities that their organisations use to coordinate further actions, recruit new members and gain visibility.

Containing Militancy: Workers, Trade Unions and Factory Regimes in Ukraine

Seeking to understand the variation in the militancy of Eastern European workers, the article argues in favor of a research agenda that places the workplace and the constraints it places on workers’ action at the center of analysis. Partly based on recent fieldwork at five plants organized by the Union of Auto- and Farm-Machine Building of Ukraine, the article explores the reasons for the difference between the conciliatory approach of organized labor at several influential automobile plants and the more militant workers in Ukraines farm-machine sector.