ABSTRACT

Utilising cutting-edge theory and unique data, this book examines the role of power, culture, and practice in Russia’s story of post-socialist economic change, and provides a framework for addressing general economic change.

No other book places power and culture as centrally as this, and in doing so it provides new insights not only into how Russia came to its present state under Putin, but also how economies operate and change generally. In particular, the importance of remaking authority and culture - creating and contesting new categories and narratives of meaning - is shown as central to Russia’s story, and to the story of economies overall.

Power, Culture and Economic Change in Russia is an excellent research tool for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of sociology, political science, economics, area studies, and other related disciplines.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

To the Undiscovered Country: a journey through post-socialism

chapter |30 pages

Power-culture, practice, and economic change

Outlines of a framework

chapter |43 pages

Contradictions and conflict unleashed

Framing and contesting authority and enterprise restructuring

chapter |34 pages

Innovation and confusion

Logics, practices, and strategies of sales

chapter |46 pages

Fields of battle

Power-culture, property, and remaking fields

chapter |19 pages

Conclusion

Lessons from the journey to the Undiscovered Country