Shaping the Economic Space in Russia : Decision Making Processes, Institutions and Adjustment to Change in the El'tsin ERA

by Harter, Stefanie; Easter, Gerald

• ISBN13: 9780754614074
• ISBN10: 0754614077
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

Exploring the political economy of the new Russia, this book presents original contributions from a host of regional and interdisciplinary perspectives. Leading international scholars from across Russia, Europe and the USA, analyse the economic, political, social and cultural aspects of contemporary economic and political life in Russia. The interplay of traditional patterns of exchange and interaction and new opportunities have created an exciting hybrid form of market economy in Russia. This book indicates economic changes we can expect from the future and what we cannot.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(10)
Gerald Easter
Stefanie Harter
Russian Regionalism, Policy-Making and State Development	11	(24)
Richard Sakwa
The Legal Substructure of Market Reforms in Russia: Achievements and Deficiencies	35	(15)
Alexander Trunk
The `Oligarchs': a Force to Reckon With?	50	(15)
Hans-Henning Schroder
Nothing Learned, Nothing Forgotten: Restructuring without Reform in Russia's Banking Sector	65	(37)
William Tompson
Adjustment to Change: the Case of the Oil and Gas Industry	102	(25)
Valery Kryukov
Down, Out and Forever Desperate? The Role of Coal Miners' Protests in Russian Politics	127	(20)
Heiko Pleines
Minatom: the Last Soviet Industrial Ministry	147	(16)
Julian Cooper
The Evolution of New Institutions in the Small Business Sector	163	(26)
Tat'yana Dolgopyatova
Factors Affecting Entrepreneurial Small Businesses in Novgorod the Great	189	(17)
Patrick Taylor
Structural Change and Distributional Consequences in Russia's Regional Economies	206	(21)
Douglas Sutherland
The Politics of Russia's Regions: a Comparative Perspective	227	(22)
Vladimir Gel'man
Creating Social Capital in Russia: the `Novgorod Model'	249	(22)
Nicolai N. Petro
The Moral Embeddedness of the Market -- Conceptualising Post-Socialist Transformations	271	(25)
Melanie Tatur
Institutional Legacy of the Old Regime as a Constraint to Reform: the Case of Fiscal Policy	296	(24)
Gerald Easter
The Subversion of Democracy in Russia: an Informal Practice Perspective	320	(17)
Alena V. Ledeneva
Index	337