Capitalism Russian Style

Author : Thane Gustafson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521641756

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Capitalism Russian-Style by Thane Gustafson Pdf

Capitalism Russian-Style provides a progress report on one of the most important economic experiments going on in the world today: the building of capitalism in Russia. It describes Russian achievements in building private banks, companies, stock exchanges, new laws and law courts. It analyzes the role of the mafia, the new financial empires, entrepreneurs, business tycoons, and the shrinking Russian state. Thane Gustafson tells how the Soviet system was dismantled and the new market society was born, and examines the prospects for a Russian economic miracle in the twenty-first century.

Author : Chrystia Freeland
Publisher : Crown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028516495

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Sale of the Century by Chrystia Freeland Pdf

In the 1990s, all eyes turned to the momentous changes in Russia, as the world's largest country was transformed into the world's newest democracy. But the heroic images of Boris Yeltsin atop a tank in front of Moscow's White House soon turned to grim new realities: a currency in freefall and a war in Chechnya; on the street, flashy new money and a vicious Russian mafia contrasted with doctors and teachers not receiving salaries for months at a time. If this was what capitalism brought, many Russians wondered if they weren't better off under the communists. This new society did not just appear ready-made: it was created by a handful of powerful men who came to be known as the oligarchs and the young reformers. The oligarchs were fast-talking businessmen who laid claim to Russia's vast natural resources. The young reformers were an elite group of egghead economists who got to put their wild theories into action, with results that were sometimes inspiring, sometimes devastating. With unparalleled access and acute insight, Chrystia Freeland takes us behind the scenes and shows us how these two groups misused a historic opportunity to build a new Russia. Their achievements were considerable, but their mistakes will deform Russian society for generations to come. Along with a gripping account of the incredible events in Russia's corridors of power, Freeland gives us a vivid sense of the buzz and hustle of the new Russia, and inside stories of the businesses that have beaten the odds and become successful and profitable. She also exposes the conflicts and compromises that developed when red directors of old Soviet firms and factories yielded to -- or fought -- the radically new ways of doing business. She delves into the loophole economy, where anyone who knows how to manipulate the new rules can make a fast buck. Sale of the Century is a fascinating fly-on-the-wall economic thriller -- an astonishing and essential account of who really controls Russia's new frontier.

Author : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:62000396

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Development of capitalism in Russia by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin Pdf

Author : Vadim Shneyder
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810142480

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Russia's Capitalist Realism by Vadim Shneyder Pdf

Russia’s Capitalist Realism examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Anton Chekhov responded to the dangers and possibilities posed by Russia’s industrial revolution. During Russia’s first tumultuous transition to capitalism, social problems became issues of literary form for writers trying to make sense of economic change. The new environments created by industry, such as giant factories and mills, demanded some kind of response from writers but defied all existing forms of language. This book recovers the rich and lively public discourse of this volatile historical period, which Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov transformed into some of the world’s greatest works of literature. Russia’s Capitalist Realism will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth‐century Russian literature and history, the relationship between capitalism and literary form, and theories of the novel.

Author : Jeffrey Surovell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351731188

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Capitalist Russia and the West by Jeffrey Surovell Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: highly innovative work which challenges mainstream approaches to the study of Russian policy with its groundbreaking application of Marxism and dependency theories. Using class analysis, it examines, in a meticulously documented study, what is perhaps the most important issue in world politics today: Russia and the West. Unconventional yet powerful, it nevertheless comes up with highly persuasive conclusions. Whether one agrees with its challenging conclusions or not, they cannot be ignored.

Author : Thomas C. Owen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195357141

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Russian Corporate Capitalism From Peter the Great to Perestroika by Thomas C. Owen Pdf

From the three perspectives of geography, economic policy, and ideology, this work examines corporate capitalism under the tsarist and late Soviet regimes. Thomas C. Owen discovers a remarkable history of thwarted effort and lost opportunity. He explores the impact of bureaucratic restrictions and reveals the entrepreneurial capabilities of Russia's corporate founders from various social groups as well as the prominence of Poles, Germans, Jews, Armenians, and foreign citizens in the corporate elite of the Russian Empire and its ten largest cities. The study stresses continuities between tsarist and late Soviet periods, especially in the persistence of anti-capitalist attitudes, both radical and reactionary. A provocative final chapter considers the implications of the weak corporate heritage for the future of Russian capitalism.

Author : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1510942

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The development of capitalism in Russia by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin Pdf

Author : Stanislav Mikhaĭlovich Menʹshikov
Publisher : Eir News Service
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 0943235227

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The Anatomy of Russian Capitalism by Stanislav Mikhaĭlovich Menʹshikov Pdf

Author : Roselyn Hsueh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108635493

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Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism by Roselyn Hsueh Pdf

What is the relationship between internal development and integration into the global economy in developing countries? How and why do state–market relations differ? And do these differences matter in the post-cold war era of global conflict and cooperation? Drawing on research in China, India, and Russia and examining sectors from textiles to telecommunications, Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism introduces a new theory of sectoral pathways to globalization and development. Adopting a historical approach, the book's Strategic Value Framework shows how state elites perceive the strategic value of sectors in response to internal and external pressures. Sectoral structures and organization of institutions further determine the role of the state in market coordination and property rights arrangements. The resultant dominant patterns of market governance vary by country and sector within country. These national configurations of sectoral models are the micro-institutional foundations of capitalism, which mediate globalization and development.

Author : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:472848886

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The Development of Capitalism in Russia by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin Pdf

Author : Peter Binns,Tony Cliff,Chris Harman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : UCAL:B4394340

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Russia by Peter Binns,Tony Cliff,Chris Harman Pdf

From Workers' State to State Capitalism.

Author : Thomas C. Owen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674015495

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Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism by Thomas C. Owen Pdf

Fedor Chizhov built the first railroad owned entirely by Russian stockholders, created Moscow’s first bank and mutual credit society, and launched the first profitable steamship line based in Archangel. In this valuable book, Thomas Owen vividly illuminates the life and world of this seminal figure in early Russian capitalism. Chizhov condemned European capitalism as detrimental to the ideal of community and the well-being of workers and peasants. In his strategy of economic nationalism, Chizhov sought to motivate merchants to undertake new forms of corporate enterprise without undermining ethnic Russian culture. He faced numerous obstacles, from the lack of domestic investment capital to the shortage of enlightened entrepreneurial talent. But he reserved his harshest criticism for the tsarist ministers, whose incompetence and prejudice against private entrepreneurship proved his greatest hindrance. Richly documented from Chizhov’s detailed diary, this work offers an insightful exploration of the institutional impediments to capitalism and the rule of law that plagued the tsarist empire and continue to bedevil post-Soviet Russia.

Author : Iván Szelényi,Péter Mihályi
Publisher : Studies in Critical Social Sci
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1642593664

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Varieties of Post-Communist Capitalism by Iván Szelényi,Péter Mihályi Pdf

Surveying Putin 's Russia and contemporary China, this volume theorized forms of capitalism that emerge in post-communist societies.

Author : Peter Westin
Publisher : London School of Economics and Political Science
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business enterprises
ISBN : 1907994025

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In from the Cold by Peter Westin Pdf

This book brings together some of the world's most successful Russia-dedicated portfolio managers, economists and market participants to share their personal experiences in this dynamic market. Many of the contributors have been active in Russia since the very inception of the market and each is uniquely qualified to offer a personal and authoritat

Author : Anne E. Gorsuch,Diane P. Koenker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501727238

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Turizm by Anne E. Gorsuch,Diane P. Koenker Pdf

In the Soviet Union and the eastern bloc, the idea of "vacation" was never as uncomplicated as throwing some suitcases in the car and heading for the beach. The emphasis was on individual self-improvement within the framework of the collective, an approach manifest in everything from the scheduling of physical exercise to the group tours organized for factory workers, Party cadres, and other segments of society. Like other Soviet-style utopian projects, socialist tourism, which was often heavily laden with rules and prescriptions, was a consciousness-raising project, part of the vast effort to forge new socialist men and women. Turizm is the first book to examine the history of tourism in Russia and eastern Europe from the tsarist period to the age of Soviet and east European mass tourism in the 1960s and 1970s. The contributors to this volume address topics including the roots of socialist tourism, the role of tourism in the making of nations and maintenance of empire, and ways in which the men and women of the "margins of Europe" understood themselves in relation to "Europe." Especially interesting are chapters that show how individuals pursued their own consumerist goals within the framework of collective tourism, obliging the regimes to adapt. Illustrated with period photographs and promotional materials, Turizm will appeal not only to historians of the region but also to anyone with an interest in consumer culture, travel, leisure, and nation-building.