The Privatisation of Industrial Enterprises in Russia: Four Case-studies

Europe-Asia Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 179-214

  Clarke, Simon ^a   Fairbrother, Peter ^a   Borisov, Vadim ^a   Bizyukov, Petr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL POLICY; PRIVATISATION; RESTRUCTURING STRATEGY;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0028569277     PISSN: 09668136     EISSN: 14653427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09668139408412158     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Igor Filatotchev, Trevor Buck & Mike Wright, ‘Privatisation and Buy-Outs in the USSR’, Soviet Studies, 44, 2, 1992;
2. Don Filtzer, ‘The Contradictions of the Marketless Market: Self-financing in the Soviet industrial enterprise 1986–90’, Soviet Studies, 43, 6, 1991;
3. Philip Hanson, ‘Property Rights in the New Phase of Reforms’, Soviet Economy, 6, 2, 1990;
4. Simon Johnson & Heidi Kroll, “Managerial Strategies for Spontaneous Privatisation”, Soviet Economy, 7, 4, 1991.
5. and Simon Clarke, ‘Privatisation and the Development of Capitalism in Russia’, New Left Review, 196, 1992.
6. A focus on the labour process, particularly where most attention is paid to skilled workers, can lead to a neglect of the strict limits of the power of Soviet workers by underplaying the fragmentation of the workforce and the divisions between workers. In this respect we would disagree with Michael Burawoy's and Don Filtzer's analyses of the Soviet system, which seem to us to over-emphasise the power of workers (Michael Burawoy & Pavel Krotov, ‘The Soviet Transition from Socialism to Capitalism’, American Sociological Review, 57, 1992, pp. 16–38;
7. Donald Filtzer, Soviet Workers and de-Stalinization: The consolidation of the modern system of Soviet production relations 1953–64 (Cambridge University Press, 1992).
8. We would endorse Hillel Ticktin's stress on the fragmentation of workers (although we would hesitate to go as far as to refer to their ‘atomisation’), but would emphasise the structural foundations of this fragmentation, as against the strictly secondary role of the repressive apparatus (Hillel Ticktin, ‘The Political Economy of Class in the Transitional Epoch,’ Critique, 20–21, pp. 7–26);
9. see S. Clarke, P. Fairbrother, M. Burawoy & P. Krotov, What About the Workers? (London, Verso, 1993), esp. Chapter 1;
10. and S. Clarke, ed, Management and Industry in Post-Communist Russia: Social Divisions in the Transition to a Market Economy (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, forthcoming 1994).