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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798256503321

Autore

Kordonskiĭ S (Simon)

Titolo

Socio-economic foundations of the Russian post-soviet regime : the resource-based economy and estate-based social structure of contemporary Russia / / Simon Kordonsky ; with a foreword by Svetlana Barsukova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart, Germany : , : ibidem-Verlag, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-8382-6775-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, , 1614-3515 ; ; 152

Disciplina

305.50947

Soggetti

Post-communism - Russia (Federation)

Russia (Federation) Social conditions 1991-

Russia (Federation) Economic policy 1991-

Russia (Federation) Politics and government 1991-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; The shadow economy of the USSR; Contemporary Russia: re-emergence of the estate system; The cyclical nature of Russian history; The political economy of socialism and its legacy; The resource-based state; Resources and threats;  the specific Russian nature; The ontological status of threats, their identification and ranking; The threat framework mirrored in the state structure; The institutional structure for neutralizing threats in Russia; Corporations for utilizing the resources allocated to neutralize threats; The population, threats and markets

Goods and money in a resource-based stateTypes of resources in the contemporary resource-based state; Resource self-management: redistribution and plundering; The social stability mythologem as a form of legitimizing resource plundering; The world economy and the resource-based state organization; Social justice and the social structure of a resource-based state; Social stratification as a specific task of the theory of classification; Estates and classes: concept operationality; Russian classes and Russian estates; The estate system



in Imperial Russia; Soviet estates

Earned and unearned income, administrative trade, and shadow economyRepression as a form of regulating inter-estate relations in the USSR; The collapse of Soviet inter-estate relations; Contemporary service (titular) estates and state service; Relations between titular estates; The hierarchy of titular estates and corporate relations; The service of titular estates; Non-titular estates; Relations between titular and non-titular estates; Estate stratification with regard to service, facilitation, and support; Administrative bargaining as a way of social life

Political groups as integrated estates: government, the people, active population, and the marginalized populationModel of the estate component of Russia's social structure: reference conditions; The hypothesis underlying our calculations; Formalized model of the social structure; Discussion of the presented model; Limitations of the presented model; Some aspects of how the contemporary estate-based structure functions: Search for a national idea, repression and depressions; The national idea as justification for the need to mobilize resources

Resource depressions and repression as a way of ""restoring order"" in the use of resourcesStagnation and depression as phases of public life; Relations of the estate-based order with the external world: ""forming the resource base"", importing and adopting; Importing worldviews and knowledge of the society-the art of imitation; Socialization and its institutions in an estate-based society; Democracy and estate stratification; Daydreaming. Instead of a conclusion; Appendix 1. Classification of threats; Ranking threats and evaluating the relative amount of resources for their neutralization

Appendix 2. Order of the Administrative Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation