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This monograph discloses the estate-based social structure of contemporary Russia by way of outlining the principles of the USSR's peculiar estate system, and explaining the new social estates of post-Soviet Russia. Simon Kordonsky distinguishes and describes in particular the currently existing Russian service and support estates. He introduces the notions of a resource-based state and resource-based economy as the political and economic foundations for Russian society's estate structure. His study demonstrates, moreover, how the method of inventing and institutionalizing threats plays a dominant role in the mode of distribution of scarce resources in such a social system. The book shows fundamental differences between resource- as well as threat-based economies, on the one side, and traditional risk-based economies, on the other, and discloses what this means for Russia's future.

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While a little uneven and repetitive in places, the book is an excellent English introduction and summary of Kordonskys recent research, which is itself an indispensable contribution to the political economy of post-communism. Jeremy Morris, Aarhus University, Europe-Asia Studies (Issue 70/7) October 2018

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      Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
      Publication Date: 01/03/2016
      ISBN13: 9783838207759, 978-3838207759
      ISBN10: 3838207750
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      Book Synopsis
      This monograph discloses the estate-based social structure of contemporary Russia by way of outlining the principles of the USSR's peculiar estate system, and explaining the new social estates of post-Soviet Russia. Simon Kordonsky distinguishes and describes in particular the currently existing Russian service and support estates. He introduces the notions of a resource-based state and resource-based economy as the political and economic foundations for Russian society's estate structure. His study demonstrates, moreover, how the method of inventing and institutionalizing threats plays a dominant role in the mode of distribution of scarce resources in such a social system. The book shows fundamental differences between resource- as well as threat-based economies, on the one side, and traditional risk-based economies, on the other, and discloses what this means for Russia's future.

      Trade Review
      While a little uneven and repetitive in places, the book is an excellent English introduction and summary of Kordonskys recent research, which is itself an indispensable contribution to the political economy of post-communism. Jeremy Morris, Aarhus University, Europe-Asia Studies (Issue 70/7) October 2018

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