The Russian Path
Ideas, Interests, Institutions, Illusions
Published on 20. October 2020
220 pages
978-3-8382-7421-8 (ISBN)
Description
The politico-economic reforms launched during the late twentieth century in post-Soviet Russia have led to contradictory and ambiguous results. The new economic environment and mode of governance that emerged have been subjected to serious criticism. What were the causes of these developments? Were they unavoidable for Russia due to specific factors grounded in the country's previous experiences? Or were they an intended result of actions taken by the leaders of the country during the last few decades?
The authors of this book share neither a deterministic approach, which implies that Russia is bound to fail because of the nature of its economic and political evolution, nor a voluntarist approach, which implies that these failures were caused only by the incompetence and/or malicious intentions of its leaders. Instead, this study offers a different framework for the analysis of political and economic developments in present-day Russia. It is based on four 'i's-ideas, interests, institutions, and illusions.
The authors of this book share neither a deterministic approach, which implies that Russia is bound to fail because of the nature of its economic and political evolution, nor a voluntarist approach, which implies that these failures were caused only by the incompetence and/or malicious intentions of its leaders. Instead, this study offers a different framework for the analysis of political and economic developments in present-day Russia. It is based on four 'i's-ideas, interests, institutions, and illusions.
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English
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Berlin
Germany
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Professional and scholarly
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2,64 MB
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978-3-8382-7421-8 (9783838274218)
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Dmitry Travin | Vladimir Gel'man | Otar Marganiya
The Russian Path
Ideas, Interests, Institutions, Illusions
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Dr. Dmitry Travin is Academic Director of the Center for Modernization Studies and Professor of Economics at the European University at St. Petersburg.
Content
- Intro
- Foreword: The Russian Path - From Enigma to an Understanding
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Major Ideas of Russian Reforms
- Orthodox-Communist Ideas
- Reformist-Socialist Ideas
- Market-Capitalist Ideas
- National-Patriotic and Imperial Ideas
- In Lieu of Conclusions
- Chapter 2. The Process of Reforms and the Influence of Interest Groups
- The Economic Reform of Perestroika
- Yeltsin and Gaidar's Economic Reforms
- Problems of the Post-Reform Economy in Russia
- Intermediate Conclusions
- Chapter 3. The Historical Path and the Slowdown of Changes
- A Patient More Dead than Alive
- A Patient More Alive than Dead
- Not an Ordinary, but a Permanent Revolution
- The NEP in Hostile Surroundings
- Chapter 4. The Reforms of the 1990s and Modern Institutions
- The Law Enforcement System in Present-day Russia
- "Expropriation of the Expropriators" in a New Way
- The Consequences of Inefficient Institutions for Russia
- A Post-Communist Mafia State
- The Predominance of State Paternalism
- Chapter 5. Public Illusions and Russian Realities
- Illusions of the Past
- A New Era, New Illusions
- The Crimean Problem
- The Empire's "Divorce" with the Nation
- Chapter 6. Bad Governance in Russia: A Vicious Circle?
- Introduction: Russia's Greatest Rent Machine
- Bad Governance in the Making
- "Bad Governance": Why?
- The Long Arm of the Past?
- The Power Vertical as a Mechanism of Bad Governance
- Chapter 7. Policy versus Politics: Technocratic Traps of Post-Soviet Reform
- The Technocratic Trap: Dictators, "Viziers" and "Eunuchs"
- The Origins of Post-Soviet Technocracy
- Technocracy at Work: Reforms in the Crossfire
- "Borrowing" and "Cultivating" Institutions: Any Possibility of Success?
- Alternatives to Technocracy: from Bad to Worse?
- Conclusion
