An Anatomy of Consent: The State and Formerly Deported Peoples in Russia

Abstract

The article considers the decline of the organisations representing formerly deported ethnicities in Russia in the 1990s. Despite the favourable political and legal conditions and the broad national consensus on the need to provide redress to the victims of ethnic deportations in the Stalinist era, these organisations largely ceased or changed their activities without having achieved their goals and without experiencing governmental pressure or intimidation. This paradox will be explained by an examination of the structure of opportunities faced by these organisations and the features of agenda-setting shared by state and non-state actors.