Empowering Women in Russia: Activism, Aid, and NgosJulie Hemment's engrossing study traces the development encounter through interactions between international foundations and Russian women's groups during a decade of national collapse. Prohibited from organizing independently under state socialism, women's groups became a focus of attention in the mid 1990s for foundations eager to promote participatory democracy, but the version of civil society that has emerged (the third sector) is far from what