Power and the People - Yulian Konstantinov

Power and the People

The State and Peripheral Communities in the Russian Far North
Buch | Softcover
XIX, 375 Seiten
2024 | 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-38308-3 (ISBN)
139,09 inkl. MwSt

This book discusses state-periphery relations from the view-point of a reindeer husbandry community in the Russian Far North (Murmansk Region). The time is the current period of Putin-led Russia. The analysis is based on the premise that the mode of current top-power governance can be described as selective de-centralization. Below a certain level of state power interests, conflicts get resolved in favour of local communities. That gains support for the supreme leadership, and reproduces a Soviet-like reality. Termed sovkhoism, the latter holds the Soviet state-farm (sovkhoz) as creating an ideal socio-economic environment. When issues are of significant interest to superior power, selection favours cavalier bypassing of people-friendly concerns. At this level, power acts in an authoritarian mode, favouring the interests of state power structures in conjunction with the upper tiers of the loyal oligarchate. It is shown how this governing mode containssignificant potential for escalating centre vs. periphery tensions.

Yulian Konstantinov is Chair of Bulgarian Society for Regional Cultural Studies, NGO, Sofia, Bulgaria. 

Chapter 1. Introductory.- Chapter 2. Reindeer Husbandry Statistics.- Chapter 3. Actors
and Tensions in the Reindeer Husbandry Part of Murmansk Region.- Chapter 4. 'Urban' ('commuting') reindeer husbandry in Murmansk Region.- Chapter 5. Summing up and conclusions.- Chapter 6. Epilogue: War and Lithium.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo XIX, 375 p. 25 illus., 19 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 511 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
Schlagworte centre-periphery relations • Post-Soviet hybrid transition • post-Soviet regime • Reindeer husbandry • Russian Far North • Soviet nostalgia • sovkhoism
ISBN-10 3-031-38308-7 / 3031383087
ISBN-13 978-3-031-38308-3 / 9783031383083
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