Freedom, Repression, and Private Property in Russia

ISBN-13: 9781107042148 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 218 str.

Vladimir Shlapentokh & Anna Arutunyan

Opis

Demonstrates how the emergence of private property and a market economy after the Soviet Union's collapse enabled a degree of freedom while simultaneously supporting authoritarianism.

Recenzje

'Arutunyan and Shlapentokh, a verteran sociologist with a deep understanding of Russian society, argue that Putin's Russia is still shaped by many social institutions inherited from the Soviet era … Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections.' Paul Rutland, Choice

Spis treści

1. Private property and big money in political regimes in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia: a theoretical overview; 2. Ideology and public opinion in a centralized society and in a fragmented society; 3. Corruption, the power of state and big business in the Soviet and post-Soviet regimes; 4. Enemies and the issue of legitimization in the Soviet and post-Soviet regimes; 5. Political police before and after; 6. Treatment of strikers in Soviet and post-Soviet times: Novocherkassk and Mezhdurechensk; 7. Foreign policy: the geopolitical factor before and money after; 8. A freedom which Putin dearly loves - the right to leave his country; Conclusion.