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The Tragedy of Property - Private Life, Ownership and the Russian State (Hardcover)
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The Tragedy of Property - Private Life, Ownership and the Russian State (Hardcover)
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Russian novels, poetry and ballet put the country squarely in the
European family of cultures and yet there is something different
about this country, especially in terms of its political culture.
What makes Russia different? Maxim Trudolyubov uses private
property as a lens to highlight the most important features that
distinguish Russia as a political culture. In many Western
societies, private property has acted as the private individual's
bulwark against the state; in Russia, by contrast, it has mostly
been used by the authorities as a governance tool.
Nineteenth-century Russian liberals did not consider property
rights to be one of the civil causes worthy of defending. Property
was associated with serfdom, and even after the emancipation of the
serfs the institution of property was still seen as an attribute of
retrograde aristocracy and oppressive government. It was something
to be destroyed - and indeed it was, in 1917. Ironically, it was
the Soviet Union that, with the arrival of mass housing in the
1960s, gave the concept of private ownership a good name. After
forced collectivization and mass urbanization, people were yearning
for a space of their own. The collapse of the Soviet ideology
allowed property to be called property, but not all properties were
equal. You could own a flat but not an oil company, which could be
property on paper but not in reality. This is why most Russian
entrepreneurs register their businesses in offshore jurisdictions
and park their money abroad. This fresh and highly original
perspective on Russian history will be of great interest to anyone
who wants to understand Russia today.
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