The Political Economy of Russia

by Robinson, Neil

• ISBN13: 9781442210752
• ISBN10: 1442210753
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-30
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

-Åslund/Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed, Peterson Institute 2007. Paper, 408 pp, $26.95. 378 PubTrack.-Åslund/Russia after the Global Economic Crisis, Peterson Institute, May 2010. Paper, 256 pp, $22.95. 50 PubTrack.-Marshall Goldman, Petrostate, Oxford, 264 pp. Paper $16.95, 163 PubTrack.

Author Biography

Neil Robinson is senior lecturer in the Department, of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
List of Tables	p. xi
Introduction: The Political Problems of Russian Capitalism	p. 1
The Contexts of Russia's Political Economy: Soviet Legacies and Post-Soviet Policies	p. 15
Revenue Imperatives: State over Market in Postcommunist Russia	p. 51
Systemic Stalemate: Reiderstvo and the Dual State	p. 69
The Political Economy of Russia's Demographic Crisis: States and Markets, Migrants and Mothers
Change in Agriculture: The Development of Russia's Private Farming	p. 121
Russia's Potential Role in the World Oil System: Reciprocal Dependency, Global Integration, and Positive Unintended Consequences	p. 151
Russia as Semiperiphery: Political Economy, the State, and Society in the Contemporary World System	p. 169
Conclusion: The Political Dysfunctions of Russian Capitalism	p. 191
References	p. 199
Index	p. 219
About the Contributors	p. 227
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