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Owning Russia : The Struggle over Factories, Farms, and Power / Andrew S. Barnes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 25 tablesContent type:
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  • 9781501726750
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.947/05 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION -- CHAPTER 1. COMPREHENDING TURMOIL -- CHAPTER 2. THE TANGLED WEB THEY WOVE -- CHAPTER 3. LET THE GAMES BEGIN, 1985-91 -- CHAPTER 4. THE NEXT BIG THING -- CHAPTER 5. MANY CURRENTS, ONE TUMULTUOUS RIVER -- CHAPTER 6. THE EARTH MOVES -- CHAPTER 7. A NEW WORLD, BUT HOW NEW? -- CHAPTER 8. FACE FORWARD -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
Summary: During and after the breakdown of the Soviet Union, a wide range of competitors fought to build new political and economic empires by wresting control over resources from the state and from each other. In the only book to examine the evolution of Russian property ownership in both industry and agriculture, Andrew Barnes uses interviews, archival research, and firsthand observation to document how a new generation of capitalists gained control over key pieces of the Russian economy by acquiring debt-ridden factories and farms once owned by the state. He argues that although the Russian government made policies that affected how actors battled one another, it could never rein in the most destructive aspects of the struggle for property.Barnes shows that dividing the spoils of the Soviet economy involved far more than the experiment with voucher privatization or the scandalous behavior of a few Moscow-based "oligarchs." In Russia, the control of property yielded benefits beyond mere profits, and these high stakes fueled an intense, enduring, and profound conflict over real assets. This fierce competition empowered the Russian executive branch at the expense of the legislature, dramatically strengthened managers in relation to workers, created a broad array of business conglomerates, and fundamentally shaped regional politics, not only blurring the line between government and business but often erasing it.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION -- CHAPTER 1. COMPREHENDING TURMOIL -- CHAPTER 2. THE TANGLED WEB THEY WOVE -- CHAPTER 3. LET THE GAMES BEGIN, 1985-91 -- CHAPTER 4. THE NEXT BIG THING -- CHAPTER 5. MANY CURRENTS, ONE TUMULTUOUS RIVER -- CHAPTER 6. THE EARTH MOVES -- CHAPTER 7. A NEW WORLD, BUT HOW NEW? -- CHAPTER 8. FACE FORWARD -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

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During and after the breakdown of the Soviet Union, a wide range of competitors fought to build new political and economic empires by wresting control over resources from the state and from each other. In the only book to examine the evolution of Russian property ownership in both industry and agriculture, Andrew Barnes uses interviews, archival research, and firsthand observation to document how a new generation of capitalists gained control over key pieces of the Russian economy by acquiring debt-ridden factories and farms once owned by the state. He argues that although the Russian government made policies that affected how actors battled one another, it could never rein in the most destructive aspects of the struggle for property.Barnes shows that dividing the spoils of the Soviet economy involved far more than the experiment with voucher privatization or the scandalous behavior of a few Moscow-based "oligarchs." In Russia, the control of property yielded benefits beyond mere profits, and these high stakes fueled an intense, enduring, and profound conflict over real assets. This fierce competition empowered the Russian executive branch at the expense of the legislature, dramatically strengthened managers in relation to workers, created a broad array of business conglomerates, and fundamentally shaped regional politics, not only blurring the line between government and business but often erasing it.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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