Russian modernization

Routledge

2021

xxiv, 368 p.

Studies in contemporary Russia

Includes bibliographical references and index

9781003099161

Contents: Chapter 1. Russian Modernization: A New Paradigm ; Chapter 2. Modernization of the Russian Economy: Fossil Fuels, Diversification and the Shackles of International Political Economy ; Chapter 3. Authoritarian Modernization in Post-Soviet Russia: Structures, Agencies, and Choices ; Chapter 4. Modernization of the Russian Social Policy: Social Crisis, Interventions, and Withdrawals ; Chapter 5. Post-Soviet Russian Culture: Anomy, Desecularization and the Conservative Turn ; Chapter 6. Modernization of Russia’s Foreign and Security Policy ; Chapter 7. Interdisciplinary Synthesis: Antinomies of Russian Modernization

Building on an original interpretation of social theory and an interdisciplinary approach, this book creates a new paradigm in the Russian studies. Taking a fresh view of Russia's multiple experiences of modernization, it seeks to explain the Putin era in a completely new way. This book explores the paradoxical and contradictory aspects of Russia, analyzing the energy-dependent economy and hybrid political regime, but also religion, welfare, and culture, and their often complex interrelations. Written by a community of both Western and Russian scholars, this book re-affirms the value of social science when confronting a society that has undergone enormous and costly systematic changes. The Russian elites see modernization narrowly as economic and technological competitiveness. The contributors to this volume see contemporary Russia facing a series of antinomies, which are macro-level dilemmas that cannot be abolished, either by philosophical mediation or by immediate political decisions. As such, they are the tension fields that constitute choices for various competing agencies.

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