During the regime of Boris Yeltsin, a few Russian businessmen picked up formerly state-owned assets for a fraction of their real value. Mikhail Khodorkovsky got the Yukos Oil Company and parlayed it ...
The War of Russian Capitalism’s Decomposition: Neoimperialism, Uninhibited Violence, and Global Civil War by Pablo Jiménez, from Insurgent Notes #25, January 2023. Submitted by Fozzie on February 5, ...
Why did two different paths emerge, despite both being in Europe?When looking at 19th-century Europe, one notices something strange.The Industrial Revolution occurs. Industrialization progresses.
After three years of war, the Putin regime is increasingly unable to control its explosive social consequences, which have exacerbated the internal contradictions of Russian capitalism. In an effort ...
Back in March, in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I wrote an essay that attempted to answer the question, “Why is Russia so poor?” as a way of highlighting some of the factors that ...
The Big Ideas: What Do We Fear? The trauma Russians endured during the transition from communism to capitalism in the 1990s helps explain why Vladimir Putin remains in power. By Elena Kostyuchenko ...
Citing Ukrainian intelligence, the war-torn nation's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that Russia offered the United States a whopping $12 trillion economic cooperation package amid talks of a ...
MOSCOW, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, seeking to renew his hold on power after unprecedented street protests, set out an economic agenda on Monday that puts state capitalism at the ...
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