Simon Kordonsky

Socio-Economic Foundations of the Russian Post-Soviet Regime (eBook, PDF)

The Resource-Based Economy and Estate-Based Social Structure of Contemporary Russia

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Produktbeschreibung

This monograph discloses the estate-based social structure of contemporary Russia by way of outlining the principles of the USSR¿s peculiar estate system, and explaining the new social estates of post-Soviet Russia. Simon Kordonsky distinguishes and describes in particular the currently existing Russian service and support estates. He introduces the notions of a resource-based state and resource-based economy as the political and economic foundations for Russian society's estate structure. His study demonstrates, moreover, how the method of inventing and institutionalizing threats plays a dominant role in the mode of distribution of scarce resources in such a social system. The book shows fundamental differences between resource- as well as threat-based economies, on the one side, and traditional risk-based economies, on the other, and discloses what this means for Russia's future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ibidem
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783838267753
• Artikelnr.: 49718962

Autorenporträt

Simon Kordonsky. Foreword by Svetlana Barsukova

Rezensionen

"[...] the book is an excellent English introduction and summary of Kordonsky's recent research, which is itself an indispensable contribution to the political economy of post-communism. The major strength of this book is the way it forces the reader to consider the path-dependent relationship between group-based entitlements in the Soviet period and the current system." - Europe-Asia Studies, issue 70/7, 2018