This article describes the protest cycle of perestroika (1985-1991) in the city of Leningrad. The political and economic reforms of democratisation were the subject of this protest. The bipolarisation of the protest movements and authorities, on the one hand, and of opposing political movements, on the other, is conceived as the developing mechanism of the protest cycle. The authors distinguish four phases of the protest cycle that correspond to the shifting political opportunities on the country and local levels.
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