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Informationen zum Autor Markku Kivinen is one of the leading social theorists in Russian studies. He has been the Director of the Aleksanteri Institute - the Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies since 1996, and the Director of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies: Choices of Russian Modernisation since 2012. Terry Cox is Professor of Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. His current research projects are on civil society and social policy in Eastern Europe. Klappentext This book draws on the work of the Finnish Centre of Excellence to present new research on a wide range of aspects of Russia's post-Soviet modernisation, including economic, political, social and cultural developments. It was originally published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies . Zusammenfassung This book draws on the work of the Finnish Centre of Excellence to present new research on a wide range of aspects of Russia’s post-Soviet modernisation, including economic, political, social and cultural developments. It was originally published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Russian Modernisation—A New Paradigm 2. The Imperial Dimension of Russian Modernisation: A Multiple Modernities Perspective 3. Modernisation of the Russian Energy Sector: Constraints on Utilising Arctic Offshore Oil Resources 4. Competition as a Means of Systemic Modernisation in State Socialism 5. Technological Modernisation in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia: Practices and Continuities 6. Opportunities and Constraints of Authoritarian Modernisation: Russian Policy Reforms in the 2000s 7. Aleksei Naval’nyi and Populist Re-ordering of Putin’s Stability 8. Interest Representation and Social Policy Making: Russian Veterans’ Organisations as Brokers between the State and Society 9. ‘With a Little Help from my Friends’: Russia’s Modernisation and the Visa Regime with the European Union 10. Protected and Controlled. Islam and ‘Desecularisation from Above’ in Russia ...
