The institutional framework of Russian serfdom / Tracy Dennison

• Record Nr.: UNISA996596870503316
• Autore: Dennison, T. K (Tracy K.), <1970->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, : Cambridge University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 9781139065313
• Descrizione fisica: Testo elettronico (PDF) (XIX, 254 p.)
• Collana: Cambridge studies in economic history
• Disciplina: 306.3650947
• Soggetti: Agricoltura - Economia - Russia - Storia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Risorsa elettronica
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: Russian rural history has long been based on a 'Peasant Myth', originating with nineteenth-century Romantics and still accepted by many historians today. In this book, Tracy Dennison shows how Russian society looked from below, and finds nothing like the collective, redistributive and market-averse behaviour often attributed to Russian peasants. On the contrary, the Russian rural population was as integrated into regional and even national markets as many of its west European counterparts. Serfdom was a loose garment that enabled different landlords to shape economic institutions, especially property rights, in widely diverse ways. Highly coercive and backward regimes on some landlords' estates existed side-by-side with surprisingly liberal approximations to a rule of law. This book paints a vivid and colourful picture of the everyday reality of rural Russia before the 1861 abolition of serfdom.

Socio-Economic Foundations of the Russian Post-Soviet Regime : The Resource-Based Economy and Estate-Based Social Structure of Contemporary Russia / / Andreas Umland, Simon Kordonsky

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910955053303321
• Autore: Kordonsky Simon
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hannover, : ibidem, 2016
• ISBN: 3-8382-6775-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (333 p.)
• Collana: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society ; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: This monograph discloses the estate-based social structure of contemporary Russia by way of outlining the principles of the USSR's peculiar estate system, and explaining the new social estates of post-Soviet Russia. Simon Kordonsky distinguishes and describes in particular the currently existing Russian service and support estates. He introduces the notions of a resource-based state and resource-based economy as the political and economic foundations for Russian society’s estate structure. His study demonstrates, moreover, how the method of inventing and institutionalizing threats plays a dominant role in the mode of distribution of scarce resources in such a social system. The book shows fundamental differences between resource- as well as threat-based economies, on the one side, and traditional risk-based economies, on the other, and discloses what this means for Russia’s future.; “[…] the book is an excellent English introduction and summary of Kordonsky’s recent research, which is itself an indispensable contribution to the political economy of post-communism. The major strength of this book is the way it forces the reader to consider the path-dependent relationship between group-based entitlements in the Soviet period and the current system.” – Europe-Asia Studies, issue 70/7, 2018