Abstract
The August 1991 overthrow of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union destroyed the institutional foundation of the Soviet political order, presenting a classic case of political revolution in Alexis de Tocqueville's sense.1 The following study reconstructs the relation between systemic change and collective action before, during, and after "the August Revolution" by means of a sociological analysis of the principal organization of the democratic movement in Russia at the end of the Soviet period, Democratic Russia or DemRossiia. In 1990, DemRossiia united a plethora of voluntary associations, nascent political parties, pro-reform factions in the CPSU, opposition candidates running in semi-free elections, and prodemocracy deputies in soviet bodies under a broad opposition umbrella intent on democratizing Soviet society. DemRossiia's key role in Boris Yeltsin's June 1991 election as the first president of the Russian Republic creating a "dual power" situation that culminated in political revolution underscores the movement's historical significance.2
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