Transforming Russia From a Military to a Peace Economy

by Cronberg, Tarja

• ISBN13: 9781860649035
• ISBN10: 1860649033
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-04
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

Tarja Cronberg's original study is based on an empirical examination of all aspects of the Soviet military-technical establishment, set within an historical framework. This work is firmly grounded in political and social theory ' in particular the "grounded theory" of Anselm Strauss and Barny Glasser, which has a significant application to contemporary Russian experience. However, underpinning the theoretical significance is the practical and everyday imperative of the economic survival of a former superpower.

Author Biography

Tarja Cronberg is a researcher at COPRI (Copenhagen Peace Research Institute.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(20)
Renegotiating technology	4	(3)
Social worlds	7	(2)
Crossing boundaries	9	(3)
The contents	12	(2)
A view from somewhere	14	(7)
A Seamless Military Web	21	(18)
Was there a MIC?	22	(1)
Military technology as a social construction	23	(2)
The collapse of institutions	25	(3)
A new autonomy	28	(3)
The commercial split-up	31	(3)
TsAGI	34	(2)
Undoing the social	36	(3)
Golden Technologies	39	(16)
An institutional boundary	40	(3)
Spin-off becomes 'dual-use'	43	(2)
From gold to steel	45	(2)
Conversion histories	47	(4)
A persistent divide	51	(4)
'En by i Rusland'	55	(20)
The Siberian gateway	55	(3)
A militarised community	58	(2)
Enterprise neighbourhoods	60	(1)
Perm 36	61	(2)
The conversion numbers	63	(2)
Business discourses	65	(3)
Iurii Dudkin	68	(4)
A miracle of survival	72	(3)
Trying Transformations	75	(16)
Regional discourses	79	(3)
The Perm Auto	82	(2)
Pumping with guns	84	(3)
Using grounded theory	87	(4)
Communities of Pride	91	(22)
Communities of practice	92	(1)
Mobilisation for a sacrifice	93	(3)
The technological race	96	(2)
Wrong ideology	98	(2)
Design cultures	100	(1)
Design actors	101	(2)
To the world's best standards	103	(2)
Vladimir Antsiferov	105	(3)
`Habits of thought'	108	(5)
Making Weapons Invisible in Everyday Life	113	(14)
A woman in the boat is bad for sailing	115	(2)
Weapons as 'products'	117	(2)
Articulating ignorance	119	(2)
Practices of secrecy	121	(3)
`The atmosphere of society'	124	(3)
Work, Sweet Home	127	(14)
The social glue	127	(2)
What is a home?	129	(1)
Firing women	130	(2)
On the market place	132	(2)
Nina, director of a fashion center	134	(2)
Rethinking identity	136	(2)
Engineers turn housewives	138	(3)
The Making of a Monster	141	(18)
The ambiguous partnership	141	(2)
Partners in technology	143	(2)
The joint venture adventure	145	(3)
Enemies turn competitors in joint ventures	148	(2)
The magic partnership	150	(1)
Technological humiliation	151	(3)
Distorted message	154	(1)
Recreating otherness	155	(4)
Renegotiating 'Defence' Technologies	159	(18)
The case of pulsed power	161	(2)
The technological imperative	163	(1)
Commercialisation of space	164	(3)
New dangers, new defences	167	(1)
Doors and frames	168	(2)
Kirassa enterprise	170	(2)
The defence of the body	172	(5)
Welfare in Warfare	177	(16)
The military and the rest	177	(3)
Problems and programmes	180	(4)
Restructuring social worlds	184	(1)
The transition glue	185	(2)
Future fears	187	(2)
Could it have been otherwise?	189	(4)
Bibliography	193
Appendix: Output Dynamics of Russian Defence Industry 1991-2000