Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Foreword: The Russian Path
  • From Enigma to an Understanding
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Major Ideas of Russian Reforms
  • Orthodox-Communist Ideas
  • Reformist-Socialist Ideas
  • Market-Capitalist Ideas
  • National-Patriotic and Imperial Ideas
  • In Lieu of Conclusions
  • Chapter 2. The Process of Reforms and the Influence of Interest Groups
  • The Economic Reform of Perestroika
  • Yeltsin and Gaidar's Economic Reforms
  • Problems of the Post-Reform Economy in Russia
  • Intermediate Conclusions
  • Chapter 3. The Historical Path and the Slowdown of Changes
  • A Patient More Dead than Alive
  • A Patient More Alive than Dead
  • Not an Ordinary, but a Permanent Revolution
  • The NEP in Hostile Surroundings
  • Chapter 4. The Reforms of the 1990s and Modern Institutions
  • The Law Enforcement System in Present-day Russia
  • "Expropriation of the Expropriators" in a New Way
  • The Consequences of Inefficient Institutions for Russia
  • A Post-Communist Mafia State
  • The Predominance of State Paternalism
  • Chapter 5. Public Illusions and Russian Realities
  • Illusions of the Past
  • A New Era, New Illusions
  • The Crimean Problem
  • The Empire's "Divorce" with the Nation
  • Chapter 6. Bad Governance in Russia: A Vicious Circle?
  • Introduction: Russia's Greatest Rent Machine
  • Bad Governance in the Making
  • "Bad Governance": Why?
  • The Long Arm of the Past?
  • The Power Vertical as a Mechanism of Bad Governance
  • Chapter 7. Policy versus Politics: Technocratic Traps of Post-Soviet Reform
  • The Technocratic Trap: Dictators, "Viziers" and "Eunuchs"
  • The Origins of Post-Soviet Technocracy
  • Technocracy at Work: Reforms in the Crossfire
  • "Borrowing" and "Cultivating" Institutions: Any Possibility of Success?
  • Alternatives to Technocracy: from Bad to Worse?
  • Conclusion