Freedom, Repression, and Private Property in Russia

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, International, Business & Finance
Cover of the book Freedom, Repression, and Private Property in Russia by Vladimir Shlapentokh, Anna Arutunyan, Cambridge University Press
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Author: Vladimir Shlapentokh, Anna Arutunyan ISBN: 9781107461888
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: September 2, 2013
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Vladimir Shlapentokh, Anna Arutunyan
ISBN: 9781107461888
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: September 2, 2013
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

This study demonstrates how the emergence of private property and a market economy after the Soviet Union's collapse enabled a degree of freedom while simultaneously supporting authoritarianism. Based on case studies, Vladimir Shlapentokh and Anna Arutunyan analyze how private property and free markets spawn feudal elements in society. These elements are so strong in post-Communist Russia that they prevent the formation of a true democratic society, while making it impossible to return to totalitarianism. The authors describe the resulting Russian society as having three types of social organization: authoritarian, feudal and liberal. The authors examine the adaptation of Soviet-era institutions like security forces, the police and the army to free market conditions and how they generated corruption; the belief that the KGB was relatively free from corruption; how large property holdings merge with power and necessitate repression; and how property relations affect government management and suppression.

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This study demonstrates how the emergence of private property and a market economy after the Soviet Union's collapse enabled a degree of freedom while simultaneously supporting authoritarianism. Based on case studies, Vladimir Shlapentokh and Anna Arutunyan analyze how private property and free markets spawn feudal elements in society. These elements are so strong in post-Communist Russia that they prevent the formation of a true democratic society, while making it impossible to return to totalitarianism. The authors describe the resulting Russian society as having three types of social organization: authoritarian, feudal and liberal. The authors examine the adaptation of Soviet-era institutions like security forces, the police and the army to free market conditions and how they generated corruption; the belief that the KGB was relatively free from corruption; how large property holdings merge with power and necessitate repression; and how property relations affect government management and suppression.

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