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The changing state of Russia
Charles Buxton gives fresh insights into complex social and political developments before and after the Soviet collapse, says Joe Gill
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
Russia and Development: Capitalism, Civil Society and the State by Charles Buxton (Zed Books, £24.99)
In this wide-ranging book, Charles Buxton brings a fresh eye to the historical analysis of Russian development during the Soviet and post-Soviet period. Rather than take a simplistic pro- or anti-Soviet position, he attempts to place more recent developments in Russia and Central Asia in a historical context by examining the late tsarist and Bolshevik periods and comparing these to developments since perestroika and the Soviet collapse.
It is not strictly speaking a Marxist analysis. But it does allow for the complex factors of local, national, class and international forces at work —which are impacting on Russia and the states of the former Soviet Union.
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