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Freedom, Repression, and Private Property in Russia
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Preface
Introduction Private Property as a Source of Both Freedom and Repression – The Russian Case
Introduction
1 Private Property and Big Money in Political Regimes in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
Debates on Post-Soviet Russia: The Consensus on Authoritarianism
Yeltsin’s Regime: The Dominance of the Liberal Belief in Private Property as an Automatic Producer of Democracy
Putin’s Regime (2000–2012): The Near-Consensus on Its Authoritarian Character
Is Putin’s Regime Similar to the Soviet Regime?
What Differs between the Authoritarian Regimes?
The Hatred of Private Property in a Totalitarian Society with Socialist Ideology
Liberal Ideology in Soviet Society: Ambivalence toward Private Property
Big Property and Its Legitimacy in a Post-Soviet Society
Big Private Property and Corruption: Rent-Seeking Activities
Big Property in a Segmented Society
Our Allies
Big Private Property and Big Money in a Feudal Context
The Possibility of Fast Accumulation of Wealth and the Downgrading of Meritocracy and Morals in Society
Big Property and Criminals
Private Wealth and Political Leaders: Their Feudal Domain
Bureaucracy: Office as a Private Property
Big Property and Democracy
Prokhorov’s Case: A Mogul at the Service of the Regime
Conclusion
2 Ideology and Public Opinion in a Centralized Society and in a Fragmented Society
A Fragmented Society and the Interests of the Elites
Was Soviet Ideology Eclectic?
Playing with Liberal Ideology: The Formal Allegiance to Western Democratic Principles
The Technology of Imitation Democracy
The Case of the Tandem as a Surrogate for Pluralism
The Conflicting Status of Private Property in Putin’s Ideology and Practice
The Play with Communist Ideology and the Inconsistency of Putin’s Ideology
Stalin and Mass Repressions
Russian Nationalism and the Church for Putin
Hatred of the West and the Nostalgia for the Empire
Contempt for Perestroika and Yeltsin’s Time
Some Disagreements on Economy and Private Property
Anti-Semitism in Soviet and Putin’s ideology
Radical Differences between Soviet Communist and Putin’s Ideologies – the Role of the Future
The Oligarchic Component and Putin’s Ideologies – A Big Overlap
Ideological Work in Both Regimes
Suslov and Surkov
Ideology and the Selection of Cadres
The Fight with Ideological “Allies-Enemies” Undermines Putin’s Propaganda
The Impact of the Soviet Ideology on the Masses
The Efficacy of Ideological Work: The Major Preoccupation of the Soviet Regime and the Indifference of Putin’s Team
Polarization of Public Opinion in Putin’s Russia
Conclusion: Expediency and Eclectic Ideology
3 Corruption, the Power of the State, and Big Business in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Regimes
The Ignoring (or Denial) of Corruption
The Endorsement of Corruption by Some Supporters and Some Enemies of the Regime: The Cultural Approach
The Functionalist Approach – Corruption Is Good
Corruption and the State in Russian History
The Eruption of Corruption in Post-Soviet Russia: A Result of the Feudalization of Society
Feudal Tendencies and Big Money as the Roots of Corruption in Post-Soviet Russia
Corruption as a Basis of Putin’s Regime
Relatives of Officials as Another Bulwark of the Regime: Omsk’s Case
Little Beneficiaries of Corruption
Corruption as a Means in the Political Struggle
The Tolerance of Corruption among Ordinary Russians
Russians in a Parallel Society
Failed Attempts to Fight Corruption under Medvedev and Putin
Conclusion
4 Enemies and the Issue of Legitimization in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Regimes
The Functions of Enemies’ Images
Ideology of Hatred: Stalin’s Time
Hatred in Post-Stalin and Post-Soviet Russia
Domestic and Foreign Enemies
The Typology of Domestic Enemies
Real and Invented Enemies: Stalin’s Case
Stalin’s “Invented” Enemies
Potential Enemies
The Real Domestic Enemies after Stalin
Enemies after 1999
The Treatment of Enemies by the Authoritarians: Repressions
Reformed Enemies
The Impact of Stalin’s Repressions on the Next Generations of Russians
Repressions in the Post-Stalin Era
Repressions in Putin’s Era
Repressions of the Old Style
Decentralization of Repressions, the Role of Proxies, and the Role of Fear
Precision Repressions as a Response to the Protests of 2011–2012
Buying the Masses
Buying Intellectuals
Conclusion
5 Political Police Before and After
The KGB in Transition
The FSB in the New Feudal-Authoritarian Society
When Were the Political Police More Influential, Now or in the Past?
Big Money and Big Property as the Cause of Changes in the FSB
KGB and FSB People at the Service of Big Companies
Big Corporations as Surrogates of the FSB
Corruption
Ordinary Criminal Activity
The Political Police as a Corporation and the Loyalty of Its Members
The KGB Ideology: The Focus on Russian Nationalism
The FSB Ideology and the Impact of Wealth
Fear of the Political Police Then and Now: A Nice Inefficiency
Conclusion: The Efficiency of the KGB and the Inefficiency of the FSB
6 Treatment of Strikers in Soviet and Post-Soviet Times: Novocherkassk and Mezhdurechensk
The Novocherkassk Case
Putin’s Treatment of Revolts
Mezhdurechensk, 2010
The People Revolt
The Government Responds
The Kuzbass Initiative
7 Geopolitics, Private Capital, and Legitimacy as Foreign Policy Goals in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
Russian Foreign Policy and Legitimization of the Regime in Russian Recent History
Legitimacy throughout Russian History
The Legitimacy of the Leader in Foreign Eyes
Legitimacy of the Rulers before 1917
Legitimacy for the Soviet Leaders
Putin’s Revival of the Legitimacy Issue: Domestic Policy
Foreign Policy Enters the Fight for Legitimization
The Crucial Turn in the Fight for Legitimacy: The Orange Revolutions
The Color Revolutions in Kiev and Tbilisi as the Western Rehearsal of Russian Regime Change
The Actions against Western Material Support of Russian Democracy
The Second Turning Point in the Fight for Legitimacy: The Presidential Election
Real Geopolitics
“Material” Geopolitics for an Ideological Purpose: The Aggressiveness of Weak Countries
The Magnitsky Affair and Private Property as a Driver of Putin’s Foreign Policy
Conclusion
8 A Freedom That Putin Dearly Loves – The Right to Leave His Country
Conclusion The Uniqueness of Putin’s Regime in Light of Russian History
Bibliography
Index