Tim McDaniel. The Agony of the Russian Idea. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. x, 201 pp.

Daniels, Robert V.

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“…This imagery, culturally rooted in Enlightenment ideas and crude Darwinian evolutionism, centers on the sense of national states “modernizing” on a trajectory determined by the functional requirements of a “stage of development” (Alasuutari and Qadir, 2016). Such modernization discourse has had a central place in Russian social thought for the last two centuries (McDaniel, 1996), and the Soviet model of modernity enhanced the modernizing rationale with a “technocratic myth” (Gill, 2013: 246). Although important historical and sociological research offered a valuable cultural critique of such ideas (e.g.…”

Section: “Upward and Onward”: The Imagery Of Progressmentioning

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Russia in world society: A comparative perspective on international references in parliamentary debates

2018

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This article explores how international references in parliaments build a synchronized world polity, even in countries that are often portrayed as being at odds with the rest of the world. The article asks whether and how Russian parliamentarians refer to the international community, and how such references compare with parliamentary debates in other countries. The "mesophenomenological" argument developed here connects World Society Theory, which demonstrates global isomorphism, with national studies of Russia, which argue for important national particularities. The empirical analysis draws on a stratified random sample of debates on draft laws in the Russian Duma from 1994 to 2013, comparable to similar samples from six other countries. The results show that 1) Russian parliamentarians refer to the international community in the same level and the same forms as in other countries; 2) Russian This is the post print version of the article, which has been published in

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Section: “Upward and Onward”: The Imagery Of Progressmentioning

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Russia in world society: A comparative perspective on international references in parliamentary debates

2018

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“…In the Soviet state, the maintenance of social norms was ensured by surveillance of everyone by everyone else and not the individuated surveillance common in western societies (see Piacentini and Slade, this issue). Similarly, McDaniel (1994) argues that a central component of the ‘Russian Idea’ is that the notion of community in Russia is more genuine and superior to that in the West, and enforcing collective norms through mutual surveillance is one way in which this genuine community is achieved. The prosecution of ‘hate crimes’ in Russia evidently reflects a similar collectivist ethos, rather than an affirmation of individual rights or a rejection of bigotry.…”

Section: The Legal Construction Of Racist Violence In Russia and The mentioning

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Systematic racist violence in Russia between ‘hate crime’ and ‘ethnic conflict’

Arnold

2015

Theoretical Criminology

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Racist violence in Russia has recently become a subject of interest to scholars and analysts of Russian politics. What are the similarities and differences between racist violence in Russia and the West? How does the level of Russian racist violence compare to other societies? Do racist hate groups in Russia have similar origins to groups in the West? This article considers these questions. I first demonstrate that Russia is indeed the most dangerous country in Europe for ethnic minorities, and argue that such violence is more 'systematic' (structured, ideologically coherent, patterned) than in other developed societies. The high level of violence against ethnic minorities in Russia is 'over-determined' by a combination of post-Soviet social and economic social changes, the brutalizing consequences of a long counter-insurgency campaign, and government passivity (and sometimes complicity) in the face of racist violence and hate speech. Thus, Russia's systematic racist violence is analytically closer to outright ethnic conflict than to a form of criminal deviance that could aptly be termed 'hate crime'.

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“…By contrast, in Russia, trust remains an important part of the lending decision. The main question, then, is how a credit card market can function in Russia where, as it has been argued by many, little trust exists beyond one's kinship and friendship networks (Fukuyama 1995;Inglehart 1997;McDaniel 1996;Nichols 1996). What is feeble in Russia is "generalized trust"-a positive cognitive bias in the evaluation of strangers (Yamagishi and Yamagishi 1994:139).…”

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Uncertainty, Risk, and Trust: Russian and American Credit Card Markets Compared

Guseva

Róna‐Tas

2001

Am Sociol Rev

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The strategies that Russian and American banks use to evaluate the creditworthiness of prospective credit card holders are compared. Drawing on Knight's theory of risk and uncertainty, the authors argue that uncertainty, inherent in any credit transaction, can only be reduced to measurable risk if there are institutions that create stability over time, categorize events properly, and allow for verification and accumulation of information. In the United States, the gradual evolution of institutions underpinning rational calculation permits the transformation of uncertainty into risk. In Russia, however, such institutions are absent, and a great degree of uncertainty prevails in consumer credit. Using data from original fieldwork in Moscow, this study demonstrates that when actors face uncertainty and are unable to calculate risk, they rely on trust. Russian banks use and extend their existing social ties, or in some cases build new ties. They also exploit cardholders’ own networks, unrelated to the bank, to increase their accountability through anchoring. These strategies, however, keep the market embedded, limited in size, and uninsurable. The authors conclude that calculation of probabilities (and economic rationality in its formal sense) is not an innate human ability but a social capacity that exists courtesy of institutional arrangements.

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Tim McDaniel. The Agony of the Russian Idea. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. x, 201 pp.

Cited by 4 publications

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Russia in world society: A comparative perspective on international references in parliamentary debates

Russia in world society: A comparative perspective on international references in parliamentary debates

Systematic racist violence in Russia between ‘hate crime’ and ‘ethnic conflict’

Uncertainty, Risk, and Trust: Russian and American Credit Card Markets Compared

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