Semi-Peripheral Russia and the Ukraine Crisis

The Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism (PSSCM): Particular Characteristics, Main Tendencies, and Its Place in the System of Marxist Studies in Post-Soviet Russia

“…It should be noted that among the PSSCM representatives there is also a group of scientists who use mainly the method of positivism, relying on the analysis of empirical facts, statistical data, historical evidence, on their systematization, rather than on the study of dialectical contradictions. The positive method is predominantly used by PSSCM representatives operating in the field of economic science: Mikhail Voeykov and Soltan Dzarasov (Dzarasov, 2010, 2012), who worked actively until his last day and contributed very much to the development of PSSCM, and Ruslan Dzarasov, and so on. The methodological dispute between the followers of the dialectical method and positivism cannot be called the main one for the PSSCM school representatives, but at the same time it is a significant manifestation of the differences in the positions of researchers observed within the school.…”

Socialisation vs the Market: The Peculiarities of Russian Capitalism

“…The Russian model of the transformation allowed a tight circle of individuals, who established and supported these informal rules, to privatise assets and at the same time to make unrestricted use of key components of public wealth. This model in and of itself made possible the continuation of an accelerated concentration of capital in the hands of the narrow group of people who controlled state and private resources, as reflected in studies of the phenomenon of insider control (Dzarasov, 2009, 2014; Dzarasov and Novozhenov, 2005). A small number of hidden insiders exercise real economic power over the corporation (wielding actual control over key property rights).…”