Ирина Николаевна Юдина

В декабре 2001 г.в известном британском издательстве "Ashgate (Эшгейт)" вышел первый том трилогии, подготовленной в рамках проекта "Трансформация и Глобализация: Акторы и Факторы постсоветского изменения " под руководством известного немецкого политолога Клауса Зегберса.

Основанная на обширном исследовании трилогия обеспечивает новые интерпретации постсоветских преобразований, не придерживаясь традиционного предположения, что Россия является уникальной страной. Используя мощные аналитические инструменты, эта трилогия отмечает попадание стран бывшего Советского Союза в поле зрения западной политической науки.

Первый том сосредотачивается на государстве, секторальных и транснациональных акторах. Он обеспечивает достаточные данные, чтобы получить понимание логики действия главных игроков в России.

Содержание тома

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.

Дополнительная информация

Номер в Британской библиотеке / British Library Reference: 330.9'47'086
Номер в Библиотеке Конгресса США / Library of Congress Reference: 2001093292

Рецензия

Review by: David Lockwood
Slavic Review, Vol. 62, No. 2 (Summer, 2003), pp. 403-404

This book is part of the research project, "Transformation and Globalization" and is the first of three volumes. As far as I am aware, this project is fairly unique in attempting to connect the ongoing transition in Russia both to the Soviet past and to the global context in which the transition is taking place. It therefore fills a gap in the literature—a most welcome development in my view, since I would argue that the effect of global factors on both the collapse of the Soviet Union and subsequent developments have been far more important than most analysts are prepared to concede. The book consists of a series of individually authored chapters covering international finance, large export-oriented corporations, mass media and telecommunications, defense, agriculture, and particular groups of actors (managers, small business, and the middle class). Most of the chapters successfully relate their subject matter to the Soviet past and to the effects of globalization.

At times however, despite the quality of individual chapters, the book seems strangely disjointed. This is particularly the case with regard to the editor's introduction in relation to the rest of the book. The introduction informs us about the necessity of "additional modifications of our state views;' resulting for him (and presumably the research project) in a "process . . . most appropriately . . . defined as a 'patchwork"' (6). This comes complete with one of those confusing diagrams, which attempts to represent "networks, flows, scapes" and so on (7). For the rest of the book, however, the patchwork frame of reference seems to disappear, never to be mentioned again. Similarly, the editor says that "the second instrument we used for determining the interests, preferences and strategies of actors [the first being the expert studies] were [sic] expert polls" (ID). Sixty experts on the exercise of power in Russia were asked to rate the power, the resources, and the attitudes of different groups of influential actors (thirty-two in all) for the years 1990, 1994, 1999, and 2004. The editor goes into considerable detail on the poll results (again, with diagrams). But once more, this instrument appears in the introduction, and thereafter recedes from view. There is no attempt to link either the patchwork concept or the poll results with the separate studies that constitute the main part of the book. This is a pity, since many of the expert contributions could quite satisfactorily stand alone; if they are to be drawn together in a volume such as this, then generalizing concepts are needed. Unfortunately, they are set out but not used. Naturally enough, the chapters vary somewhat in how successfully their studies connect with globalization—though it should be said that those on Gazprom, Lukoil, and the mining and metals industry are especially good in this regard.

The book takes a significant step toward redressing the balance between internal and external factors in late and post-Soviet developments. It would be even more interesting for future studies to consider a third "variable," that of a deeper history—that is to say, the effect of pre-Soviet (late tsarist) legacies on subsequent periods.