{"product_id":"how-to-bring-down-an-oligarchy-i","title":"How to Bring Down an Oligarchy I","description":"In the spring of 2018, one man began by walking.\u003cbr\u003eHe did not know he would win. He only knew that standing still had become impossible.\u003cbr\u003eTwenty-six days later, the oligarchy fell without a single death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIlkka Ronkainen was there. He lived next door to the Armenian parliament, walked the streets of Yerevan day after day, and wrote every evening. He watched a revolution take shape from twenty meters away and watched what was left unbuilt in its aftermath.\u003cbr\u003eThis book is his account of both.\u003cbr\u003eThe first part is a day-by-day diary of Armenia's Velvet Revolution of 2018, one of the most remarkable political events of the twenty-first century. The second part asks the harder question: eight years later, what did the revolution actually deliver? Elections became genuinely free. The economy grew at extraordinary speed. Fear weakened. But high-level corruption remained unpunished, the judiciary never became truly independent, and the deep structures of oligarchic power adapted rather than disappeared.\u003cbr\u003eArmenia proved that a population can withdraw its consent from a corrupt system and prevail: peacefully, joyfully, and with overwhelming unity.\u003cbr\u003eWhat it could not yet prove is how to make that change permanent.\u003cbr\u003ePower is not untouchable. Systems that appear permanent are not permanent. Fear is not permanent.","brand":"BoD - Books on Demand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57705052209487,"sku":"9789528089353","price":30.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9789528089353_1-how-to-bring-down-an-oligarchy-i.jpg?v=1779091334","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/how-to-bring-down-an-oligarchy-i","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}