Beschreibung:
This illuminating book explores the neo-Gramscian school of international political economy and their conceptualization of global hegemony, and furthers these by looking at how the often fragmented society of post-Communist Russia can provide insight into the nature and workings of neo-liberal global hegemony.
Contents: Introduction: Russia's place in the global political economy; Hegemony and international political economy; Neoliberalism and globalisation; Hegemony in the Soviet Union; Russia under Yeltsin: neoliberalism and minimum hegemony; Russian social movements after the fall: Russian responses to neoliberal hegemony; Russia under Putin: passive revolution and Trasformismo; Bibliography; Index.