Socio-Economic Foundations of the Russian Post-Soviet Regime.

By Simon Kordonsky

This monograph discloses the estate-based social structure of contemporary Russia by way of outlining the principles of the USSR s peculiar estate system, and explaining the new social estates of post-Soviet Russia. Simon Kordonsky distinguishes and describes in particular the currently existing Russian service and support estates. He introduces the notions of a resource-based state and resource-based economy as the political and economic foundations for Russian society's estate structure. His study demonstrates, moreover, how the method of inventing and institutionalizing threats plays a dominant role in the mode of distribution of scarce resources in such a social system. The book shows fundamental differences between resource- as well as threat-based economies, on the one side, and traditional risk-based economies, on the other, and discloses what this means for Russia's future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3838207750
• ISBN13: 9783838207759
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Ibidem Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"