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Socio-economic foundations of the Russian post-Soviet regime : the resource-based economy and estate-based social structure of contemporary Russia /
Simon Kordonsky divides the social structure of contemporary Russia into distinct estates or social groups and describes each organization's unique resource-based political and economic nature. As he guides readers through Russia's peculiar service and support estate system, Kordonsky reve...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stuttgart :
Ibidem-Verlag,
2016.
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| Colección: | Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ;
152. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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