Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks

• Contents: Actors and interests in a changing Russia, Klaus Segbers; International financial organizations and globalization by default, Ognian Hishow; The origins and management of the federal debt to the world, Artos G. Sarkisiants; Financial supervision and moral hazard on an emerging market, Irina N. Iudina; Large corporations as national and global players: the case of Gazprom, Andreas Heinrich; Large corporations as national and global players: the case of Lukoil, Sergei P. Peregudov; The mining and metal industry and globalization, Stephen Fortescue; The banking sector and its international involvement, Artos G. Sarkisiants; Financial groups and the development of market institutions, Grigorii V. Krasnov; The mass media between political instrumentalization, economic concentration and global assimilation, Ivan I. Zasurskii; The telecommunications sector: signs of liberalization and globalization, Elena K. Rytsareva; High-technology defense production: the move into foreign markets, Ruslan N. Pukhov; Defense industry managers and the dynamics of intra-sectoral divergence, Leonid I. Kosals and Rozalina V. Ryvkina; Actors in agro-food policy: who shapes outcomes?, Evgeniia V. Serova; Agrarian actors in the localities, Zemfira I. Kalugina; Industrial managers’ aspirations towards foreign markets: motives, methods and the consequences for companies, Igor B. Gurkov; Small business in the context of international integration, Tat’aina A. Alimova; The self-denying middle-class in a global age, Harley D. Balzer; Bibliography; Index.

’...valuable source for anyone interested in the politics and economy of the former "Second World".’ Business Horizons ’Th[is] book takes a significant step toward redressing the balance between internal and external factors in late and post-Soviet develoments.’ Slavic Review