Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to question the periodization of Russian political and economic development that sees a break occurring between the Yeltsin and Putin presidencies. It does this by looking at how political problems common to late developing nations influenced the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to question the periodization of Russian political and economic development that sees a break occurring between the Yeltsin and Putin presidencies. It does this by looking at how political problems common to late developing nations influenced the...

Introduction: the political problems of Russian capitalism / Neil Robinson -- The contexts of Russia's political economy: Soviet legacies and post-Soviet policies / Neil Robinson -- Revenue imperatives: state over market in post-communist Russia / Gerald M. Easter -- Systemic stalemate:...