The historian and macrosociologist Georgi Derluguian of America's Northwestern University has shared with iEkspert/i his opinion of the book iThe Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold/i and his view of the problem of the geographical distribution of industrial...

The Great Recession has prompted a reassessment of the specific mode of capitalist accumulation that achieved dominance in the era of globalization. Yet just about all of this literature has focused on one of two issues: why things went wrong, and what we need to do in order to return the system...

Georgi Derluguian, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, talked about the Russian economy and socio-political system. The accompanying audio files provide the complete recording and audience discussion of the talk given by the author. Those who download the audio files must have...