Lessons of Korean Democratization for Modern Russia

The Prospects of Democratization of Russia: Between Slavophilism and Westernization

of the report This report on the Russian democratic prospect in the contexte of civilization strugglespresents the cultural factors of the regime transformation in that country. It is generallyestimated that the democracy in Russia will fail, because there are too many obstacles to it. Tothem belong, first of all, the perplexity of many the Russians, being in an awkward position...

CULTURAL HISTORY OF MODERN RUSSIA Religion in Modern Russian History

The essay below, written for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Modern Russian History, attempts to address the role of religion in Russia over the last three centuries or so. As such, it serves as a useful introduction to at least some of the issues that we will address in this course. The article is notable for its attempt to address all of Russia’s various religions, and thus to set the issu...

Resistance is futile: toward a non-modern democratization of technology

Andrew Feenberg’s political philosophy of technology uniquely connects the neo-Marxist tradition with phenomenological approaches to technology. This paper investigates how this connection shapes Feenberg’s analysis of power. Influenced by De Certeau and by classical positions in philosophy of technology, Feenberg focuses on a dialectical model of oppression versus liberation. A hermeneutic rea...

Ancient teachings, modern lessons.

Competition and Firm Performance: Lessons from Russia

The "big-bang" liberalization of the inefficient Russian economy in 1992 provides a fruitful setting for analyzing the impact of several dimensions of market competition and other factors on enterprise efficiency. We analyze 1992-1998 panel data on 14,961 enterprises covering 75 percent of industrial employment, emphasizing the varied sources, geographic scope, intensity, time path, and surviva...