1st Edition

Shaping the Economic Space in Russia Decision Making Processes, Institutions and Adjustment to Change in the El'tsin Era

Edited By Stefanie Harter, Gerald Easter Copyright 2017
356 Pages
by Routledge

356 Pages
by Routledge

356 Pages
by Routledge

This title was first published in 2000:  As the El'tsin era has now drawn to a close, numerous questions remain unanswered regarding the course of Russia's post-Communist traditions. El'tsin's exit from the presidential stage provides an opportunity to assess the achievements of Russia's multi-faceted reforms, to explain the factors that have most shaped the reform process, and to identify... Read more

Russian regionalism, policy-making and state development, Richard Sakwa; the legal substructure of market reforms in Russia - achievements and deficiencies, Alexander Trunk; the "oligarchs" - a force to reckon with? Hans-Henning Schroder; nothing learned, nothing forgotten - restructuring without reform in Russia's banking sector, William Tompson; adjustment to change - the case of the oil and gas industry, Valery Kryukov; down, out and forever desperate? The role of coal miners' protests in Russian politics, Heiko Pleines; Minatom - the last Soviet industrial ministry, Julian Cooper; the evolution of new institutions in the small business sector, Tat'yana Dolgopyatova; factors affecting entrepreneurial small businesses in Novgorod the Great, Patrick Taylor; structural change and distributional consequences in Russia's regional economies, Douglas Sutherland; the politics of Russia's regions - a comparative perspective, Vladimir Gel'man; creating social capital in Russia - the "Novgorod Model", Nicolai N. Petro; the moral embeddedness of the market - conceptualising post-Soviet transformations, Melanie Tatur; institutional legacy of the old regime as a constraint to reform - the case of fiscal policy, Gerald Easter; the subversion of democracy in Russia - an informal practice perspective, Alena V. Ledeneva.

Biography

Stefanie Harter, Gerald Easter