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The State and Big Business in Russia Understanding Kremlin–Business Relations in the Early Putin Era

By Tina Jennings Copyright 2022
328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents a study of the complex relationship between the Russian state and big business during Vladimir Putin’s first two presidential terms (2000–2008). Based on extensive original research, it focuses on the interaction of Russia’s political executive with the ‘oligarchs’. It shows how Putin’s crackdown on this elite group led big business to accept new ‘rules of the game’ and how... Read more

1. Introduction 2. A Corporatist Interpretation of State-Business Relations in Putin’s Russia 3. The State Reasserted: The Decline of the ‘Oligarchy’ 4. Putin’s New ‘Rules of the Game’: Institutionalising Russia’s Business Elite 5. All the President’s Men: The Influence of the Presidential Administration 6. Business Associations in Russia: The Early Putin Era 7. The RSPP: A Case Study in Collective Lobbying 8. The Yukos Affair: Causes and Motives 9. Khodorkovsky’s Arrest: Russia’s Business Elite Reacts 10. Postscript

Biography

Tina Jennings is a Foundation Fellow at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and was a Research Fellow at the College's Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (2008–2018).