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Communist and Post-Communist Studies 50 (2017) 207e220 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Communist and Post-Communist Studies journal homepage: /locate/postcomstud Civil society development in Russia and Ukraine: Diverging paths Susan Stewart a, *, Jan Matti Dollbaum b a German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, Germany b Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen, Germany a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The authors compare civil society development in Russia and Ukraine in recent years in terms of civil societys structure and relationships with the state and the broader society. They find major differences in 1) the treatment of civil society by state actors and 2) the Keywords: level of trust placed in civil society by the population. They use these and other findings to Civil society assess civil societys ability to play economic, political and social roles as defined by Post-Soviet Michael Edwards in Civil Society (Edwards, 2009) and discover important differences State-society relations emerging with regard to the political and social roles. Russia Ukraine © 2017 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights