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• Introduction: Climate change and its implications for Russia
• The politics of climate change in Russia
• The twilight of Russian oil?
• Can natural gas replace oil?
• Russia's coal dilemma
• Renewables: a slow start
• The revival of Russian nuclear power
• Russia's agricultural renaissance
• A tale of two Arctics
• Metals
• Conclusion: The reckoning ahead

A discerning analysis of the future effects of climate change on Russia, the major power most dependent on the fossil fuel economy. Russia will be one of the countries most affected by climate change. No major power is more economically dependent on the export of hydrocarbons; at the same time, two-thirds of Russia's territory lies in the arctic north, where melting permafrost is already imposing growing damage. Climate change also brings drought and floods to Russia's south, threatening the country's agricultural exports. Thane Gustafson predicts that, over the next thirty years, climate change will leave a dramatic imprint on Russia. The decline of fossil fuel use is already underway, and restrictions on hydrocarbons will only tighten, cutting fuel prices and slashing Russia's export revenues. Yet Russia has no substitutes for oil and gas revenues. The country is unprepared for the worldwide transition to renewable energy, as Russian leaders continue to invest the national wealth in oil and gas while dismissing the promise of post-carbon technologies. Nor has the state made efforts to offset the direct damage that climate change will do inside the country. Optimists point to new opportunities-higher temperatures could increase agricultural yields, the melting of arctic ice may open year-round shipping lanes in the far north, and Russia could become a global nuclear-energy supplier. But the eventual post-Putin generation of Russian leaders will nonetheless face enormous handicaps, as their country finds itself weaker than at any time in the preceding century. Lucid and thought-provoking, Klimat shows how climate change is poised to alter the global order, potentially toppling even great powers from their perches.
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• 1. Revolution or 'crony capitalism'?
• 2. Insider privatization and its consequences
• 3. Wall Street comes to Moscow
• 4. The Russian banks come of age
• 5. No capitalism without capitalists
• 6. The epidemic of crime
• 7. Toward the rule of law
• 8. Beyond coping: the recovery of society
• 9. The shrinking state and the battle for taxes
• 10. Conclusion: halfway to market.
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For a decade Russia has been dismantling communism and building capitalism. Describing a deeply flawed fledgling market economy, Capitalism Russian-Style provides a progress report on one of the most important economic experiments going on in the world today. It describes Russian achievements in building private banks and companies, stock exchanges, new laws and law courts. It analyzes the role of the mafia, the rise of new financial empires, entrepreneurs and business tycoons, and the shrinking Russian state. Thane Gustafson tells how the Soviet system was dismantled and the new market society was born. He argues that this new society is changing constantly, so that any assessment of success and failure would be premature. Identifying investment as vital to preserving Russia's status as a major industrial power, in his final chapter he examines the prospects for an economic miracle in Russia in the twenty-first century.
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• 1. Revolution or 'crony capitalism'?
• 2. Insider privatization and its consequences
• 3. Wall Street comes to Moscow
• 4. The Russian banks come of age
• 5. No capitalism without capitalists
• 6. The epidemic of crime
• 7. Toward the rule of law
• 8. Beyond coping: the recovery of society
• 9. The shrinking state and the battle for taxes
• 10. Conclusion: halfway to market.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

For a decade Russia has been dismantling communism and building capitalism. Describing a deeply flawed fledgling market economy, Capitalism Russian-Style provides a progress report on one of the most important economic experiments going on in the world today. It describes Russian achievements in building private banks and companies, stock exchanges, new laws and law courts. It analyzes the role of the mafia, the rise of new financial empires, entrepreneurs and business tycoons, and the shrinking Russian state. Thane Gustafson tells how the Soviet system was dismantled and the new market society was born. He argues that this new society is changing constantly, so that any assessment of success and failure would be premature. Identifying investment as vital to preserving Russia's status as a major industrial power, in his final chapter he examines the prospects for an economic miracle in Russia in the twenty-first century.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• 1. Revolution or 'crony capitalism'?
• 2. Insider privatization and its consequences
• 3. Wall Street comes to Moscow
• 4. The Russian banks come of age
• 5. No capitalism without capitalists
• 6. The epidemic of crime
• 7. Toward the rule of law
• 8. Beyond coping: the recovery of society
• 9. The shrinking state and the battle for taxes
• 10. Conclusion: halfway to market.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

For a decade Russia has been dismantling communism and building capitalism. Describing a deeply flawed fledgling market economy, Capitalism Russian-Style provides a progress report on one of the most important economic experiments going on in the world today. It describes Russian achievements in building private banks and companies, stock exchanges, new laws and law courts. It analyzes the role of the mafia, the rise of new financial empires, entrepreneurs and business tycoons, and the shrinking Russian state. Thane Gustafson tells how the Soviet system was dismantled and the new market society was born. He argues that this new society is changing constantly, so that any assessment of success and failure would be premature. Identifying investment as vital to preserving Russia's status as a major industrial power, in his final chapter he examines the prospects for an economic miracle in Russia in the twenty-first century.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• 1. Revolution or 'crony capitalism'?
• 2. Insider privatization and its consequences
• 3. Wall Street comes to Moscow
• 4. The Russian banks come of age
• 5. No capitalism without capitalists
• 6. The epidemic of crime
• 7. Toward the rule of law
• 8. Beyond coping: the recovery of society
• 9. The shrinking state and the battle for taxes
• 10. Conclusion: halfway to market.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

For a decade Russia has been dismantling communism and building capitalism. Describing a deeply flawed fledgling market economy, Capitalism Russian-Style provides a progress report on one of the most important economic experiments going on in the world today. It describes Russian achievements in building private banks and companies, stock exchanges, new laws and law courts. It analyzes the role of the mafia, the rise of new financial empires, entrepreneurs and business tycoons, and the shrinking Russian state. Thane Gustafson tells how the Soviet system was dismantled and the new market society was born. He argues that this new society is changing constantly, so that any assessment of success and failure would be premature. Identifying investment as vital to preserving Russia's status as a major industrial power, in his final chapter he examines the prospects for an economic miracle in Russia in the twenty-first century.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• The breakup: the Soviet oil industry disintegrates
• Riding chaos: the battle for ownership, money, and power
• The birth of the Russian majors: Lukoil, Surgut, and Yukos
• Worlds in collision: the foreigners arrive in Russia
• The Russian "oil miracle", 1999
• 2004
• The brothers from Saint Petersburg: the origins of Putin's state capitalism
• "Chudo" meets "Russian bear": the Yukos affair
• Russia's accidental oil champion: the rise of Rosneft
• Krizis: the rude reawakening of 2008
• 2009 and the Russian oil tax dilemma
• Strong thumbs, weak fingers: how the state regulates the oil industry
• The half-raised curtain: the foreign companies as agents of change
• The coming crisis of oil rents
• Oil and the future of Russia.

The Russian oil industry--which vies with Saudi Arabia as the world's largest producer and exporter of oil, providing nearly 12 percent of the global supply--is facing mounting problems that could send shock waves through the Russian economy and worldwide. Wheel of Fortune provides an authoritative account of this vital industry from the last years of communism to its uncertain future. Tracking the interdependence among Russia's oil industry, politics, and economy, Thane Gustafson shows how the stakes extend beyond international energy security to include the potential threat of a destabilized Russia. Gustafson, a leading consultant and analyst of the politics of energy in the former Soviet Union, draws on interviews with key players over the course of two decades to provide a detailed history of the oil industry's evolution since the breakup of the Soviet Union. At its center is the complex and fraught relationship between the oil industry and the state, which loosened its grip under Yeltsin only to tighten it again under Putin. As oil becomes harder to find and more expensive to produce and deliver, Gustafson warns, Russia's growing dependence on revenue from oil exports, along with its inefficient and often-corrupt management of the industry, is unsustainable. A rich but troubled Soviet legacy, the conflicting ambitions of politicians and industry oligarchs, and the excesses of capitalism Russian-style threaten to lead Russia to an impasse. Involving the oil industry in the country's modernization agenda and remaking its relationship to the state, Gustafson argues, is Russia's best path toward a stable economy and a safer world.
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The world's largest exporter of oil is facing mounting problems that could send shock waves through every major economy. Gustafson provides an authoritative account of the Russian oil industry from the last years of communism to its uncertain future. The stakes extend beyond global energy security to include the threat of a destabilized Russia.
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• The breakup: the Soviet oil industry disintegrates
• Riding chaos: the battle for ownership, money, and power
• The birth of the Russian majors: LUKoil, Surgutneftegaz, and Yukos
• Worlds in collision: the foreigners arrive in Russia
• The Russian "oil miracle", 1999 - 2004
• The brothers from Saint Petersburg: the origins of Putin's state capitalism
• "Chudo" meets "Russian bear": the Yukos affair
• Russia's accidental oil champion: the rise of Rosneft
• Krizis: the rude reawakening of 2008 - 2009 and the Russian oil tax dilemma
• Strong thumbs, weak fingers: how the state regulates the oil industry
• The half-raised curtain: the foreign companies as agents of change
• Three colors of oil: the coming crisis of oil rents
• Looking ahead: Oil and the future of Russial; Russia and the future of oil.

The Russian oil industry--which vies with Saudi Arabia as the world's largest producer and exporter of oil, providing nearly 12 percent of the global supply--is facing mounting problems that could send shock waves through the Russian economy and worldwide. Wheel of Fortune provides an authoritative account of this vital industry from the last years of communism to its uncertain future. Tracking the interdependence among Russia's oil industry, politics, and economy, Thane Gustafson shows how the stakes extend beyond international energy security to include the potential threat of a destabilized Russia. Gustafson, a leading consultant and analyst of the politics of energy in the former Soviet Union, draws on interviews with key players over the course of two decades to provide a detailed history of the oil industry's evolution since the breakup of the Soviet Union. At its center is the complex and fraught relationship between the oil industry and the state, which loosened its grip under Yeltsin only to tighten it again under Putin. As oil becomes harder to find and more expensive to produce and deliver, Gustafson warns, Russia's growing dependence on revenue from oil exports, along with its inefficient and often-corrupt management of the industry, is unsustainable. A rich but troubled Soviet legacy, the conflicting ambitions of politicians and industry oligarchs, and the excesses of capitalism Russian-style threaten to lead Russia to an impasse. Involving the oil industry in the country's modernization agenda and remaking its relationship to the state, Gustafson argues, is Russia's best path toward a stable economy and a safer world.
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• Introduction
• Two worlds of gas
• The beginnings of the gas bridge
• From optimism to anxiety
• Norway and the rise of the North Sea
• Soviet gas: the last hurrah
• Crossing the Channel: the neoliberal tide reaches Brussels
• Brussels: marching to market
• The battle for Germany
• Gazprom survives and gets away
• Gazprom under pressure
• Russia and Ukraine: conflict and collusion
• Russian-German gas relations
• Battle joined, war averted
• Conclusion: The future of the gas bridge

A noted expert on Russian energy argues that despite Europe's geopolitical rivalries, natural gas and deals based on it unite Europe's nations in mutual self-interest. Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the Soviet empire, the West faces a new era of East-West tensions. Any vision of a modern Russia integrated into the world economy and aligned in peaceful partnership with a reunited Europe has abruptly vanished. Two opposing narratives vie to explain the strategic future of Europe, one geopolitical and one economic, and both center on the same resource: natural gas. In The Bridge, Thane Gustafson, an expert on Russian oil and gas, argues that the political rivalries that capture the lion's share of media attention must be viewed alongside multiple business interests and differences in economic ideologies. With a dense network of pipelines linking Europe and Russia, natural gas serves as a bridge that unites the region through common interests. Tracking the economic and political role of natural gas through several countries-Russia and Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, and Norway-The Bridge details both its history and its likely future. As Gustafson suggests, there are reasons for optimism, but whether the "gas bridge" can ultimately survive mounting geopolitical tensions and environmental challenges remains to be seen.
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• Cover; Contents;
• 1. Perspectives on Civil-Military Relations in the Soviet Union.

How much power does the Soviet military exert on the politics of the Kremlin? This is one of the most controversial questions in the study of the Soviet Union, here addressed by eight top Western specialists on Soviet politics and security policy. While the authors assert that the civil-military relationship has been less turbulent than often believed, they also point out that Gorbachev's reforms threaten the system of buffers that have until now shielded the military-industrial world from disruption and change. Introduced by Timothy Colton's essay, ""Perspectives on Civil-Military Re

• Cover; Contents;
• 1. Perspectives on Civil-Military Relations in the Soviet Union.

How much power does the Soviet military exert on the politics of the Kremlin? This is one of the most controversial questions in the study of the Soviet Union, here addressed by eight top Western specialists on Soviet politics and security policy. While the authors assert that the civil-military relationship has been less turbulent than often believed, they also point out that Gorbachev's reforms threaten the system of buffers that have until now shielded the military-industrial world from disruption and change. Introduced by Timothy Colton's essay, ""Perspectives on Civil-Military Re