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1. Russian Path Dependence

   A People with a Troubled History

   By Stefan Hedlund

   Series: Routledge Studies in the European Economy

   Russia's transition to a market economy has been tortuous to say the least. However, this book argues that the arguments and counter-arguments that pitch shock therapy against gradualism are wide of the mark and quite pointless.Indeed, the reasons for the warped outcomes can actually be traced back...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. Power and Legitimacy - Challenges from Russia

   Edited by Per-Arne Bodin, Stefan Hedlund, Elena Namli

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   This book sheds new light on the continuing debate within political thought as to what constitutes power, and what distinguishes legitimate from illegitimate power. It does so by considering the experience of Russia, a polity where experiences of the legitimacy of power and the collapse of power...

   Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
3. Russia's Market Economy

   A Bad Case of Predatory Capitalism

   By Stefan Hedlund

   Russia's Market Economy is a seminal account of Russia's transition to the market, its tortuous development as a fledgling market economy through the 1990s, right through to its spectacular collapse in August 1998. Rather than beginning with the economic collapse, the book traces the historical...

   Published July 14th 1999 by Routledge