Open AccessTransformation in Russland
Author(s) -
Lydia Heller,
Sabine Nuss
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
prokla
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2700-0311
pISSN - 0342-8176
DOI - 10.32387/prokla.v29i117.797
Subject(s) - transformation (genetics) , property (philosophy) , illusion , process (computing) , economic system , market economy , political science , political economy , economy , business , economics , epistemology , computer science , psychology , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , neuroscience , operating system , gene
Recent analyses on Russia's transformation are more and more tending to become „gangster-stories“. Contrary to approaches based on dividing economies into „informal“, „criminal“ etc. „sectors“ this essay tries to analyze the transformation process in Russia with regard to the special conditions given there for the genesis of a market-economy. It shows that the implementation of elements of marketeconomies, first of all private property, always went together with new qualities and quantities of „informal behavior“. As a result we identify no break - first planned than market-economy - but a continuous „informal regulation“ which brings out only the illusion of a marketsociety.