Freedom, Repression, and Private Property in Russia
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Freedom, Repression, and Private Property in Russia

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Freedom, Repression, and Private Property in Russia

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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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Freedom, Repression, and Private Property in Russia
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction Private Property as a Source of Both Freedom and Repression – The Russian Case
  8. 1 Private Property and Big Money in Political Regimes in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
  9. 2 Ideology and Public Opinion in a Centralized Society and in a Fragmented Society
  10. 3 Corruption, the Power of the State, and Big Business in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Regimes
  11. 4 Enemies and the Issue of Legitimization in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Regimes
  12. 5 Political Police Before and After
  13. 6 Treatment of Strikers in Soviet and Post-Soviet Times: Novocherkassk and Mezhdurechensk
  14. 7 Geopolitics, Private Capital, and Legitimacy as Foreign Policy Goals in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
  15. 8 A Freedom That Putin Dearly Loves – The Right to Leave His Country
  16. Conclusion The Uniqueness of Putin’s Regime in Light of Russian History
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index