Current thinking about Russia’s future is dominated by two hypotheses: the official one of technocratic authoritarian modernization and the liberal market modernization advocated by the oppositional elite. I would like to expand the range of possibilities. I would also like to briefly specify the social constraints pointing toward further “de-modernization” by default and suggest the possibility for a renewed national developmentalism based on a broader social alliance. The latter might be called neo-Leninism. […]
Memo #:
154
Series:
2
PDF:
PDF URL:
http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/ponars/pepm_154.pdf