Russian transformations : challenging the global narrative / edited by Leo McCann.

"First published in 2005. First issued in paperback ed 2012."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to Russian transformations / Leo McCann -- Historical and theoretical observations -- The nomenklatura's passive revolution in Russia in the neoliberal era / Pinar Bedihanoglu -- Globalization po-russki or, what really happened in August 1998? / Anastasia Nesvetailova -- The social organisation of the Russian industrial enterprise in the period of transition -- Empirical investigations -- From socialist camp to a global village? : globalization and the imaginary landscapes of postsocialism / Olga Shevchenko and Yakov Schukin -- The development of the oil and gas industries in Russia / Ella Akerman -- Novosibirsk : the globalization of Siberia / Sarah Busse Spencer -- Why work off the books? community, household, and individual determinants of informal economic activity in post-Soviet Russia -- Embeddedness, markets, and the state : observations from Tatarstan / Leo McCann -- The development of post-Soviet neo-paternalism in two enterprises in Bashkortostan : how familial-type management moves firms and workers away from labor markets -- Theoretical reflections -- Russia and globalisation : concluding comments / Richard Sakwa.