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Abstract
This is an investigation into the interaction of power, money and people in Russia during the presidencies of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev.
Profiling Putin's team, including his security services and pro-market economic 'reformers', Simon Pirani argues that the growth during the oil boom was one-sided. The gap between rich and poor widened. Now the boom is over, this problem has only grown.
As well as explaining Russia's economic trajectory, the book provides a unique account of the social movements that are working against an increasingly authoritarian government to change Russia for the better.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| List of photographs, figures and tables | vii | ||
| Preface | ix | ||
| Acknowledgements | xi | ||
| Introduction: Putin's Russia in deep focus | 1 | ||
| 1. From Gorbachev to Yeltsin | 16 | ||
| Soviet and post-Soviet elites (1986-91) | 16 | ||
| Yeltsin's Russia and the world (1992-95) | 23 | ||
| 2. From Yeltsin to Putin | 32 | ||
| The weak state and the oligarchs (1995–96) | 32 | ||
| Society Shattered | 39 | ||
| Yeltsin's second term and the financial crash (1996–99) | 43 | ||
| 3. Power and Money: The Economic Foundations | 47 | ||
| How the Economy Changed | 47 | ||
| The shifting balance of oil power | 53 | ||
| Russia and the resource curse | 58 | ||
| 4. Power and Money: The Economic Foundations | 62 | ||
| Enter the men from the KGB (1999–2002) | 62 | ||
| The state taekse charge of oil and gas (2002–07) | 71 | ||
| The energy weapon | 84 | ||
| 5. Power and Money: From Oil Boom to Bust | 87 | ||
| The oil boom (2002–07) | 87 | ||
| The world crisis takes its toll (2007 –09) | 99 | ||
| 6 Power and People: How Russia is Ruled | 111 | ||
| The war that made Putin | 111 | ||
| ‘Managed Democracty' and its limits | 118 | ||
| 7. People and Money: Human Development Dilemmas | 133 | ||
| The demographic and health crisis | 133 | ||
| The widening gap between rich and poor | 137 | ||
| Social policy under Putin | 145 | ||
| 8. People: Parties, Unions and NGOs | 148 | ||
| The political opposition | 151 | ||
| Movements for human rights and the environment, and other NGOs | 155 | ||
| What about the workers? | 160 | ||
| 9. People: Parties, Unions and NGOs | 173 | ||
| The welfare benefits revolt | 173 | ||
| Housing rights action | 177 | ||
| An array of causes | 185 | ||
| Conclusions | 191 | ||
| Notes | 198 | ||
| Glossary of Russaian words and abbreviations | 216 | ||
| Chronology | 217 | ||
| Further reading | 220 | ||
| Index | 222 |