Russian Modernization

Markku Kivinen is a sociologist of Russia, and founder and former Director for 23 years to the Aleksanteri Institute, the Finnish Centre for Russian and East European studies. Brendan Humphreys is a senior researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, the Finnish Centre for Russian and East European studies, and affiliated with Urbaria, the Helsinki Centre for Urban studies.

• Chapter 1 – Russian Modernization: A New Paradigm Chapter 2 – Modernization of the Russian Economy: Fossil Fuels, Diversification and the Shackles of International Political Economy Chapter 3 – Authoritarian Modernization in Post-Soviet Russia: Structures, Agencies, and Choices Chapter 4 – Modernization of the Russian Social Policy: Social Crisis, Interventions, and Withdrawals Chapter 5 – Post-Soviet Russian Culture: Anomy, Desecularization and the Conservative Turn Chapter 6 – Modernization of Russia’s Foreign and Security Policy Chapter 7 – Interdisciplinary Synthesis: Antinomies of Russian Modernization

"The culmination of an ambitious and extraordinarily productive eight-year multi-author study of the various dimensions of Russian modernisation, the outlines of a new paradigm are presented here, combining wide-ranging interdisciplinary investigations, social theory and the best of area studies. Containing a wealth of theoretical insight and empirical analysis by an impressive range of specialists, this pioneering volume applies the concept of modernisation while modernising the concept itself." - Richard Sakwa, University of Kent, UK."A beacon of cool, perceptive empirical analyses and open-ended theorization in a field infested with fixed ideas and ideologies. Illuminating." - Göran Therborn, emeritus, University of Cambridge, UK.