How Russia is not ruled : reflections on Russian political development / Allen C. Lynch.

The state remains as important to Russia's prospects as ever. This is so not only because, as in any society, an effectively functioning state administration is necessary to the proper functioning of a complex economy and legal system, but also because, in Russian circumstances, factors of econ...

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Main Author: Lynch, Allen, 1955-
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Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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520 |a The state remains as important to Russia's prospects as ever. This is so not only because, as in any society, an effectively functioning state administration is necessary to the proper functioning of a complex economy and legal system, but also because, in Russian circumstances, factors of economic geography tend to increase costs of production compared to the rest of the world. These mutually reinforcing factors include: the extreme severity of the climate, the immense distances to be covered, the dislocation between (European) population centers and (Siberian) natural resource centers, and the inevitable predominance of relatively costly land transportation over sea-borne transportation. As a result, it is questionable whether Russia can exist as a world civilization under predominantly liberal economic circumstances: in a unified liberal global capital market, large-scale private direct capital investment will not be directed to massive, outdoor infrastructure projects typical of state investment in the Soviet period. 
505 0 |a Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. On the Importance of the State in the Russian Setting -- II. The Argument of the Book -- III. The Organization of the Book -- 1 Historical Patterns of Russian Political Development -- I. The Argument -- II. Specification of Terms -- III. A European Pattern of Political Development -- IV. Conditions Governing Russian Success -- V. The Distinctiveness of Russia's Patrimonial Absolutism -- VI. The Facts of Life -- VII. Implications -- VIII. Costs of Security and Costs of Production. 
505 8 |a 2 Soviet Legacies for Post-Soviet Russia -- I. Introduction -- II. The Argument -- III. Economic Legacies: Isolation and Relative Backwardness -- IV. Militarization of the Economy -- V. Social Legacies: Fragmentation and Exhaustion -- VI. Social Organization and Political Regime -- VII. Tidal Waves of Violence -- VIII. Positive Legacies -- IX. The Legacy of Soviet Collapse: Stealing the State -- X. Russia's Path-Dependent Matrix -- 3 The 1990s in Russia: A New Time of Troubles? -- I. Introduction -- II. Worst-Case Scenarios Failed To Occur -- III. Another Russian Experiment. 
505 8 |a IV. The Russian Macroeconomy -- V. Paths Taken and Not -- VI. Social Aspects -- A. Degree of Social Inequality -- B. Regional Inequalities -- C. Compression of the Wage Structure -- D. Decomposition of the Soviet Middle Class -- E. High Poverty Rate -- F. Sharp Decline in Public Health -- G. Deterioration of Diet -- H. Increase in Suicide Rate -- VII. Russia's Silent Scream -- VIII. How Do Russians Get By at All? -- IX. The Military -- X. The Condition of Russian Science -- XI. The Rise of Post-Soviet Russian Crime -- XII. Conclusion -- 4 Russia's "Neopatrimonial" Political System, 1992-2004. 
505 8 |a I. Introduction -- II. General Prerequisites of Democracy -- III. Specific Tensions in Postcommunist Reform Processes -- IV. The Early Course of Reform -- V. Foreign Reinforcements -- VI. Russia's Political Institutions -- A. The Constitution -- B. The Parliament -- VII. Russia's Electoral History -- VIII. The "Pays Reel": The System of Presidential Authority -- IX. From Yeltsin to Putin -- X. Putin and the Consolidation of Russia's Neopatrimonial System -- XI. Conclusion -- 5 The Russian 1990s in Comparative Perspective -- I. Introduction -- II. Institutions and Values. 
505 8 |a III. Russia in the Postcommunist Context -- IV. Conclusions on Russia Compared to East-Central Europe -- V. Russia Compared to the G-7 World -- VI. Other Points of Comparison -- A. Weimar Germany -- B. Communist China -- C. The Postcolonial World -- VII. Conclusion -- 6 What Future for Russia?: Liberal Economics and Illiberal Geography -- I. Introduction -- II. Structural or Conjunctural Factors in Russia's Favor? -- III. Infrastructure, Asset Depreciation, and Direct Capital Investment -- IV. The Decision to Invest -- V. The Influence of Late-Soviet Developments on Post-Soviet Prospects. 
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