Russia's Development Problem The Cult of Power

This book explores the operating mechanisms of the Russian economy in a comparative perspective, and offers fascinating insights into how the socio-economic infrastructure limits development.

HANS VAN ZON is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Sunderland, UK. His publications include The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine, The Future of Industry in Central and Eastern Europe, Alternative Scenarios for Central Europe, Central European Industry in the Information Age (with Dillon, Hausner and Kwiecinska), and Social and Economic Change in Eastern Ukraine: The Example of Zaporizhzhya (with Batako and Kreslavska).

List of Tables, Schemes, Graphs and Maps	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Divergence in Post-Socialism: The Role of Culture	p. 1
Economic, political and cultural divergence in Central and Eastern Europe	p. 2
The age old problem of catching up with Western Europe	p. 6
Cultural-behavioural regions	p. 8
Soviet Russia: Revolution and Continuity	p. 15
Russia on the eve of the October Revolution	p. 15
The impact of the Bolshevik Revolution	p. 21
From 1953 to the middle of the 1970s: fear without mass terror	p. 29
1975-85: cynicism, apathy and stagnation	p. 31
Perestroika: the Nomenklatura transforms into a rentier-bourgeoisie	p. 35
Post-Soviet Russia: Captured by the Past?	p. 43
The Yeltsin era: things fall apart	p. 43
The Putin era	p. 56
National Character and Economy	p. 68
Surveying attitudes in Russia	p. 69
The (post-) Soviet socio-psychological syndrome	p. 72
How Russian Neo-Patrimonialism Works	p. 82
How Russia is governed	p. 82
How the economic system works	p. 91
Ukraine and the Russian Type of Neo-Patrimonialism	p. 109
The case of Donetsk: the winner takes all	p. 119
Path Creation: A Comparative Perspective	p. 125
Russia from the perspective of the experience of Western economies	p. 125
Russia from the perspective of patrimonial societies	p. 129
Social preconditions for social and economic progress	p. 133
Towards a knowledge-based and innovative economy	p. 134
Conclusion	p. 152
Notes	p. 156
Bibliography	p. 176
Index	p. 185
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