Raamatus uuritakse, kuidas tavainimesed seotakse vastupanu ja mässuga tugevate režiimide vastu. Näidatakse, kuidas põhjuste järgnevus - sotsiaalsed normid, ratsionaalsed kalkulatsioonid - viivad indiviidid passiivse vastupanu rolli ja järgmises astmes ühinemisele kogukonnabaasil moodustatud mässajate organisatsioonidega.

Empiiriline materjal keskendub Leedu nõukogudevastasele liikumisele 1940-ndatel ja 1987-1991 aastatel.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Mechanisms and Process
• Lithuania, 1940-1941
• Rebellion in an Urban Community: The Role of Leadership and Centralization
• The German Occupation of Lithuania
• Postwar Lithuania
• More Cases, More Comparisons
• Resistance in the Perestroika Period
• Fanatics and First Actors
• Conclusions

«Resistance and Rebellion» is a first-rate work of social science that will be widely read for a long time. It offers a simple, but persuasive theory that explains why weak and outnumbered groups rebel against their more powerful oppressors. Moreover, Petersen employs his theory to tell a fascinating and compelling story about Lithuanian resistance to the Nazis and the Soviets during the 1940s, and against the Soviet Union in the late 1980s.
John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago