ABSTRACT
This chapter takes the four aspects of globalization that are seen as relevant to the international mining and metals (M&M) industry – a large proportion of output entering international trade, and technology transfer – and applies them to the Russian industry. It summarizes the situation at the end of the Soviet period and then examines changes in the post-Soviet period. The chapter examines the attitudes towards these various developments, all of which are contentious, of various Russian political and policy actors. The consequences of the Soviet Union's self-sufficiency policy remained to be faced by the industry in very different circumstances in post-Soviet Russia. However, the opportunity to overcome them and adopt an entirely new approach to the world was by no means absent. The chapter concludes by summing up the discussion in terms of two questions related to the main divisions of the paper: is the Russian M&M industry globalized? and who determines whether it is or not?
