Ilya Matveev- Doctor of Philosophy
- Visiting Scholar at University of California, Berkeley
Ilya Matveev
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Visiting Scholar at University of California, Berkeley
Russian politics & political economy
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I'm a researcher working on Russia's political economy with a focus on state-business relations and social policy
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September 2013 - June 2016
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Publications (29)
How has the transformation of the Russian economy and society in response to the challenges posed by the invasion of Ukraine affected popular support for the war? Scholars puzzled by the consistent majority support for the “special military operation” have tried to explain it by reference to the low reliability of opinion polls in Russia, imperiali...
While Russia became widely known in the 1990s for its experiment in shock therapy, by the mid-2000s the Kremlin pioneered a new set of policies that amounted to the national variant of the developmentalist approach. In this article, we take stock of the Russian developmentalism, focusing on the role of ideas, the institution-building by the federal...
Государственный капитализм сегодня находится в центре академических и политических дискуссий. Для одних он ассоциируется со смелой, неортодоксальной стратегией устойчивого экономического роста, для других – с опасным заблуждением, сопутствующим авторитаризму и коррупции. Если исторически государственный капитализм анализировался в марксистской трад...
Люк Болтански, Арно Эскер. Обогащение. Критика товара/Пер.
с фр. О. Волчек; под науч. ред. С. Фокина. М.; СПб.: Издательство Института Гайдара; Факультет свободных искусств и наук СПбГУ, 2021. 600 с. (Новое экономическое мышление).
In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, over 40 countries have introduced sanctions against Rus-sia. The new restrictions concern finance, trade, logistics, and personal sanctions against businessmen and officials. In addition, more than 1,000 companies have ceased or limited their activities in Russia. In this article, I argue that the san...
Russia experienced both economic and geopolitical expansion in the 2000s. During this time, the Kremlin and big business worked in tandem to assert Russian influence in post-Soviet space. However, the annexation of Crimea and Russia’s involvement in the war in Eastern Ukraine in 2014 marked a new period that severed the state’s geopolitical strateg...
This essay explores the dynamics of political polarization in Russia with a particular focus on class. We find that the divide between the pro-reform camp and the left-nationalist opposition in the 1990s had a distinctly class character. In the 2000s, the polarization in society receded – both due to the objective factors (sustained economic recove...
The purpose of this article is to place developments in welfare policy since 2012 in the context of the different models of welfare restructuring in Russia. We focus on President Vladimir Putin’s Decree No. 597, which set out to raise the salaries of doctors, teachers and other categories of public employees. We find that neoliberalism is deeply em...
In the wake of the economic crisis of 2014–2016, the Russian government implemented tough austerity measures, earning the praise of the International Monetary Fund. However, the spending cuts were unevenly distributed across different welfare programmes, budget levels (i.e. federal and regional) as well as across different Russian regions. The arti...
The article argues that the Russian authorities downplay the influence of big business on the policymaking process, which remains strong. The sources of business influence lie in the potential for individual and collective lobbying (instrumental power), but also in the state's structural dependence on capital, which forces the authorities to antici...
В научной литературе преобладает точка зрения, согласно которой российский крупный бизнес в путинский период оказался полностью подчинен власти, что выражается, в частности, в полном запрете на поддержку оппозиции и принудительном финансировании важных для государства проектов. Однако стремительный рост числа российских миллиардеров и их совокупног...
This article traces the evolution of the neoliberal policy paradigm in Putin's Russia. It deals with an apparent paradox: while Putin's rule has always been based on a sharp rhetorical break with the disastrous first decade of Russia's post-Soviet history, he nevertheless continued many of the neoliberal policies of his predecessor, in some areas c...
В послевоенных социальных науках всплеск интереса к государству как самостоятельному объекту анализа наблюдался дважды. Первая волна теорий 1960—1970-х годов связана со спорами о государстве в западном марксизме, прежде всего с дискуссией между Ральфом Милибэндом и Никосом Пуланзасом, затронувшей американские, английские и французские академические...
The article explores the mutual determination of crises that replaced the "stability" of the 2000s in Russia. The period since 2009 witnessed a rapid accumulation and condensation of contradictions in different spheres, from the economic crisis of 2009 to the political crisis of 2011-2012, to the "geopolitical" crisis of 2014, and finally, to the n...
When the protests in Russia erupted in 2011-2013, they soon became encapsulated by one particular interpretation. According to the public discourse supported both by the liberal mainstream and by the Kremlin propagandists, there are two social groups in Russia, almost two distinct nations: an apathetic and conformist people and an enlightened minor...
Общественный подъем, или, если выразиться осторожнее, пробуждение публичной политики, неизбежно ставит вопрос об ответственности интеллектуалов. Это значит, что вновь становятся актуальными дилеммы и трудности, преследующие любую попытку ангажированного политического участия интеллектуалов. В сложившихся условиях, с нашей точки зрения, полезно обра...
