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1 online resource |
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Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ; 152 |
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Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ; 152
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 reveals how remarkably effective inventing and institutionalizing threats can be in the distribution of scarce resources in a social system of this kind. His book emphasizes the fundamental differences between resource-based economies and traditional risk-based economies and their role in Russia's future |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 21, 2016) |
| Subject |
Post-communism -- Russia (Federation)
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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Economic policy.
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Politics and government.
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Post-communism.
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| SUBJECT |
Russia -- Economic policy
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Russia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004045
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| Subject |
Russia.
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Russia (Federation)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Barsukova, Svetlana, writer of foreword
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| ISBN |
9783838267753 |
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3838267753 |
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