From Sovereigns to Servants How the War Against Ukraine Reshaped Russia's Elite

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From Sovereigns to Servants How the War Against Ukraine Reshaped Russia's Elite | 2.67 MB

Title: From Sovereigns to Servants How the War Against Ukraine Reshaped Russia's Elite
Author: Alexandra Prokopenko
Category: International, Political Science, Business & Finance
Language: English | 280 Pages | ISBN: 9781805268154


Description:
How did Putin co-opt Russia's political and economic elites, ensuring no more than fitful resistance to the regime's war on Ukraine?
When Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the West slapped crushing sanctions on Russia. Many expected the country's elite-prominent liberals and global businessmen-to defend their assets and cosmopolitan lifestyles by forcing Putin to stop the war. Instead, liberal-minded officials rewired the economy for war; corporations obeyed new rules; and only a handful resigned or spoke out. Why?
Built on dozens of candid conversations with top Russian officials and businessmen since the mid-2010s, this book dissects their moral reasoning, and how their boundaries of ethical acceptability expanded over time, in line with the expectations of their superiors. Though the Russian upper class retained formal attributes of power, in reality it lost its agency, essentially becoming a mere instrument of...