Published 2016
Table of Contents:
“…The shadow economy of the USSR -- Contemporary Russia : re-emergence of the estate system -- The cyclical nature of Russian history -- The political economy of socialism and its legacy -- The resource-based state -- Resources and threats; the specific Russian nature -- The ontological status of threats, their identification and ranking -- The threat framework mirrored in the state structure -- The institutional structure for neutralizing threats in Russia -- Corporations for utilizing the resources allocated to neutralize threats -- The population, threats and markets -- Goods and money in a resource-based state -- Types of resources in the contemporary resource-based state -- Resource self-management : redistribution and plundering -- The social stability mythologem as a form of legitimizing resource plundering -- The world economy and the resource-based state organization --
Social justice and the social structure of a resource-based state -- Social stratification as a specific task of the theory of classification -- Estates and classes: concept operationality -- Russian classes and Russian estates -- The estate system in Imperial Russia -- Soviet estates -- Earned and unearned income, administrative trade, and shadow economy -- Repression as a form of regulating inter-estate relations in the USSR -- The collapse of Soviet inter-estate relations -- Contemporary service (titular) estates and state service -- Relations between titular estates -- The hierarchy of titular estates and corporate relations -- The service of titular estates -- Non-titular estates -- Relations between titular and non-titular estates -- Estate stratification with regard to service, facilitation, and support -- Administrative bargaining as a way of social life -- Political groups as integrated estates : government, the people, active population, and the marginalized population -- Model of the estate component of Russia's social structure : reference conditions -- The hypothesis underlying our calculations -- Formalized model of the social structure -- Discussion of the presented model -- Limitations of the presented model -- Some aspects of how the contemporary estate-based structure functions : search for a national idea, repression and depressions -- The national idea as justification for the need to mobilize resources -- Resource depressions and repression as a way of "restoring order" in the use of resources -- Stagnation and depression as phases of public life -- Relations of the estate-based order with the external world : "forming the resource base", importing and adopting -- Importing worldviews and knowledge of the society : the art of imitation -- Socialization and its institutions in an estate-based society -- Democracy and estate stratification -- Daydreaming. …”
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