| Author(s) | |
|---|---|
| Publisher | |
| Publication Year |
Loft Offices and Factory Towns
Social Sources of Political Polarization in Russia
From: The Socialist Register 2022
$2.00
Ilya Matveev and Oleg Zhuravlev focus on how the post-Soviet economic and social polarizations were taken advantage of by the political leadership in the country. Matveev and Zhuravlev argue that through this shift from Soviet to post-Soviet society provided a unique moment in the political polarization receded at the cost of widespread public apathy towards politics’, which allowed an authoritarian regime to emerge in the later 1990’s under President Vladimir Putin and remain in power to the present day. Topics discussed include globalization, the transition to a market economy, the rise in inequality, conservative nationalism versus socially progressive cosmopolitanism, and diverge in Russia’s complex political reality.
