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Record Nr.

UNINA9910776160403321

Autore

Crowley Stephen

Titolo

Putin's Labor Dilemma : Russian Politics Between Stability and Stagnation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

©2023

ISBN

1-5017-5630-3

1-5017-5627-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 pages)

Disciplina

331.120947

Soggetti

Working class-Russia (Federation)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

PUTIN'S LABOR DILEMMA -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration and Currency -- 1. The Political Consequences of Russian Deindustrialization -- 2. Russia's Peculiar Labor Market and the Fear of Social Explosion -- 3. Russia's Labor Productivity Trap -- 4. Monotowns and Russia's Post-Soviet Urban Geography -- 5. Labor Protest in Russia's Hybrid Regime -- 6. Downsizing in "Russia's Detroit" -- 7. The Specter of a Color Revolution -- 8. Russia's Truckers and the Road to Radicalization -- 9. How Different Is Russia? The Comparative Context -- Conclusion: Overcoming Russia's Labor Dilemma -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Either scenario-market reforms or economic stagnation-raises the possibility, even probability, of destabilizing social unrest.