Shaping the Economic Space in Russia

This title was first published in 2000: El'tsin's exit from the presidential stage provides an opportunity to assess the achievements of Russia's multi-faceted reforms, to explain the factors that have most shaped the reform process, and to identify the trends that are likely to continue under a presidential successor.

Russian regionalism, policy-making and state development, Richard Sakwa ; the legal substructure of market reforms in Russia - achievements and deficiencies, Alexander Trunk ; the oligarchs - a force to reckon with? Hans-Henning Schroder ; nothing learned, nothing forgotten - restructuring without reform in Russia's banking sector, William Tompson ; adjustment to change - the case of the oil and gas industry, Valery Kryukov ; down, out and forever desperate? The role of coal miners' protests in Russian politics, Heiko Pleines ; Minatom - the last Soviet industrial ministry, Julian Cooper ; the evolution of new institutions in the small business sector, Tat'yana Dolgopyatova ; factors affecting entrepreneurial small businesses in Novgorod the Great, Patrick Taylor ; structural change and distributional consequences in Russia's regional economies, Douglas Sutherland ; the politics of Russia's regions - a comparative perspective, Vladimir Gel'man ; creating social capital in Russia - the Novgorod Model, Nicolai N. Petro ; the moral embeddedness of the market - conceptualising post-Soviet transformations, Melanie Tatur ; institutional legacy of the old regime as a constraint to reform - the case of fiscal policy, Gerald Easter ; the subversion of democracy in Russia - an informal practice perspective, Alena V. Ledeneva .