We are still in a neoliberal society.
Continue reading...Sergei Antonov presents a history of counterfeiting in Imperial Russia
Natasha Bluth
On February 5, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Sergei Antonov for a colloquium on “Criminal Capitalism in Imperial Russia: Counterfeiters, Merchants, and Gendarmes.” Antonov, an Affiliated Scholar in the History Department at Queens College, CUNY, was introduced by Anne O’Donnell, Assistant Professor of History, Russian & Slavic Studies at NYU. The discussion focused on a paper that will serve as a portion of Antonov’s forthcoming book on the history of personal credit in Imperial Russia, seeking to establish larger connections between criminality, law and capitalism in 19th-century Russia.
Kristy Ironside discusses Soviet tax on bachelors, singles persons and small families
Anastassia Kostrioukova
On March 6, 2015, the Jordan Center welcomed Kristy Ironside, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, to speak about the Soviet tax on bachelors, singles persons and small families that was decreed by Nikita Khrushchev at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in 1941.
Continue reading...Talking with Yanni Kotsonis about “States of Obligation”
Elizabeth Glenn
Most people would think taxes and Russia, and then think beatings, unfairness, repression, burden, squalor, and an overbearing state. That’s plain wrong.
Continue reading...It’s the economy, durachok! A Snapshot of the Current Mess
Yanni Kotsonis
Foreign policy is completely related to the economy. Internationally Russia has been finding itself less and less capable, less able to exert lasting influence.
Continue reading...More of the same: Why Russia’s equity market isn’t down by more
E. Katherine Foshag
Critics of Putin’s recent tactics have suggested that this time, he has damaged investor confidence beyond repair.
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