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Peters, George, -- Junior --- Merchants -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg

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Russia (Federation) -- Description and travel --- Russia -- Foreign relations -- 1825-1855

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The book is the first attempt to investigate how and to what extent authoritarian (personalistic) regimes fail to provide fundamental goods and services. For two decades, Russian authorities spent much effort and money to improve health administration, but most success stories are borderline fake. The failure is by design; because personalistic regimes rely on personalized exchanges and bargains instead of impersonal rules and permanent organizations, all actors put self-interest ahead of patients' needs. It is a severe problem because authoritarian principals proclaim social betterment as their central goal -- and many Russians take such claims at face value -- but incentivize their agents to imitate progress and tolerate slipshod performance. The benefits of this investigation are three-fold. First, the book provides an analytical framework of bad governance rooted in the rational institutionalist tradition and connected to competence-control theory. Second, it gives a general readership interested in how Russia works a sense of the key political players' mindset and the regime-induced constraints under which elites operate. Third, although the book investigates health governance exclusively, its analytical framework is portable to other issue areas and could be applied to explain how and why Russia evolved into an ineffective, coercive, and predatory state under Putin's leadership. Vlad Kravtsov is Associate Professor of Political Science & Law at Spring Hill College, the US. .

Politics --- History of Eastern Europe --- geschiedenis --- Europese politiek --- Russia --- Europe --- Authoritarianism. --- Health services administration. --- Russia (Federation)

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This volume offers a lively introduction to Russia's dramatic history and the striking changes that characterize its story. Distinguished authors Barbara Alpern Engel and Janet Martin show how Russia's peoples met the constant challenges posed by geography, climate, availability of natural resources, and devastating foreign invasions, and rose to become the world's second largest land empire. The book describes the circumstances that led to the world's first communist society in 1917, and traces the global consequences of Russia's long confrontation with the United States, which took place vir

Cultural pluralism --- Social change --- History. --- History. --- Russia --- Soviet Union --- Russia (Federation) --- Russia --- History. --- History. --- History. --- Relations.

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This monograph provides a novel long-term approach to the role of Russia's imperial legacies in its interactions with the former Soviet space. It develops 'Hybrid Exceptionalism' as a critical conceptual tool aimed at uncovering the great power's self-positioning between 'East' and 'West', and its hierarchical claims over subalterns situated in both civilizational imaginaries. It explores how, in the Tsarist, Soviet, and contemporary eras, distinct civilizational spaces were created, and maintained, through narratives and practices emanating from Russia's ambiguous relationship with Western modernity, and its part-identification with a subordinated 'Orient'. The Romanov Empire's struggles with 'Russianness', the USSR's Marxism-Leninism, and contemporary Russia's combination of feigned liberal and civilizational discourses are explored as the basis of a series of successive civilising missions, through an interdisciplinary engagement with official discourses, scholarship, and the arts. The book concludes with an exploration of contemporary policy implications for the West, and the former Soviet states themselves.

International relations. Foreign policy --- Politics --- Economics --- buitenlandse politiek --- politiek --- Europese politiek --- internationale betrekkingen --- Europe --- Regionalism --- Social aspects. --- Russia (Federation) --- Relations.