Peter Reddaway is professor of political science. He is author, with Dmitri Glinski, of a book provisionally titled The Tragedy of Russia’s Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy (U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2001).
Today’s Russian protest movement in many ways resembles past civil-rights and civil-resistance efforts in other parts of the world, from its commitment to nonviolence to its key demands—a vote that…