Most of the existing studies regarding the spread of capitalism and democratization in the former Eastern Bloc states and those created after the breakup of the Soviet Union do not reveal an impact on this process by the economy-elites. As for Russia, most existing studies assign a negative role...

Most of the existing studies regarding the spread of capitalism and democratization in the former Eastern Bloc states and those created after the breakup of the Soviet Union do not reveal an impact on this process by the economy-elites. As for Russia, most existing studies assign a negative role...

Most of the existing studies regarding the spread of capitalism and democratization in the former Eastern Bloc states and those created after the breakup of the Soviet Union do not reveal an impact on this process by the economy-elites. As for Russia, most existing studies assign a negative role...

The kamikaze crew of liberal reformers, picked by former President Boris Yeltsin in the early 1990s, succeeded in overturning the planned economy and the authoritarian political arrangements of seven decades of Soviet Communism. However, the resulting breakdown of political cohesion and the...