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Capture of the Russian State Under Yeltsin?

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The Political Economy of Russian Aluminium

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Relationships of various kinds acted to shape the Russian aluminium industry. Relations between the new political and economic elites played a major part in the period after the collapse of the Soviet project. This chapter examines the role of horizontal and vertical relationships, with particular attention to how the privatization of state-controlled assets contributed to the total remake of the industry. With the collapse of the Soviet project and the privatization of state assets, relations between the political power and the emerging class of economic tycoons had to be redefined: this chapter offers a detailed account of that challenging process.

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Godzimirski, J.M. (2018). Capture of the Russian State Under Yeltsin?. In: The Political Economy of Russian Aluminium. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57234-5_7

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