“We Don’t Do It for the Regime, We Do It for Ourselves”: relational Politics and the 2022 Russian Antiwar Petitions

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This article examines the wave of antiwar petitions that appeared in Russia after the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Within nine days, nearly a hundred petitions gathered over 1.5 million signatures before repression curtailed the movement. Although they did not affect state policy, their scale and urgency raise questions about why people engaged in a form of action seen as ineffective and risky. Drawing on 91 antiwar petitions, as well as interviews with initiators and signatories, we show that petitions served primarily relational purposes: affirming values, expressing solidarity, and reinforcing communities under conditions of moral crisis and political danger.

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