Divisions within the Russian Political Elites

Author(s): David Lane
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 124
Pages: 2-5
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publication Year: 2013

The author contends that Russia should be regarded as a hybrid economic system supporting two major elite constituencies: a politically led national statist bloc and liberal Western-oriented economic interests favouring neo-liberal market policies. The political leadership is considered to be constituted of a political coalition offering a balance between these two groups.

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