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Record Nr.

UNINA9910831819203321

Autore

Wengle Susanne A

Titolo

Post-Soviet Power : : State-Led Development and Russia's Marketization / / Susanne A. Wengle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brookline, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2022

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 p.)

Collana

Contemporary Western Rusistika

Disciplina

337.47

Soggetti

History / Russia & The Former Soviet Union

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Russo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Список таблиц -- Список иллюстраций -- Благодарности -- Введение. Политические аспекты маркетизации в России -- Часть I -- Глава 1. От министерства к маркетизации -- Глава 2. Политика в сфере электроэнергетики -- Глава 3. Региональные пакты и политическое значение вещественных факторов -- Часть II -- Глава 4. Приватизация: конкурирующие претенденты и новые собственники -- Глава 5. Либерализация и цена на электроэнергию -- Глава 6. Технократия: энергетики и менеджеры -- Заключение. Развитие как контекстно обусловленные трансформации -- Приложения -- Библиография -- Предметно-именной указатель -- Оглавление

Sommario/riassunto

Post-Soviet Power tells the story of the Russian electricity system and examines the politics of its transformation from a ministry to a market. Susanne A. Wengle shifts our focus away from what has been at the center of post-Soviet political economy - corruption and the lack of structural reforms - to draw attention to political struggles to establish a state with the ability to govern the economy. She highlights the importance of hands-on economic planning by authorities - post-Soviet developmentalism - and details the market mechanisms that have been created. This book argues that these observations urge us to think of economies and political authority as mutually constitutive, in Russia and beyond. Whereas political science often thinks of market arrangements resulting from political institutions, Russia's



marketization demonstrates that political status is also produced by the market arrangements that actors create. Taking this reflexivity seriously suggests a view of economies and markets as constructed and contingent entities.