This book explores the operating mechanisms of the Russian economy in a comparative perspective, and offers fascinating insights into how a socio-economic infrastructure has been created which continues to exert an influence on modern-day Russia and limits its development.

HANS VAN ZON is a Professor at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. His publications include The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine, The Future of Industry in Central and Eastern Europe, Alternative Scenarios for Central Europe, Central European Industry in the Information Age (with Dillon, Hausner and Kwiecinska), and Social and Economic Change in Eastern Ukraine: The Example of Zaporizhzhya (with Batako and Kreslavska).