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Vol. 13 No. 1 (2021)

The Corporation in Russia

Guest edited by Douglas Rogers

What are some of the particular characteristics of Russian corporations and corporations in Russia, and how might we theorize and historicize their embeddedness in the social and cultural imagination, in the governance of populations and its contestation, and in the context of global transformations of the corporate form in recent decades? Answers to these questions have been scarcer than one might wish for in existing scholarship, at least in part because scholars of Russia have long been consumed with understanding the Russian state and its power. There are good reasons for this focus, starting with the brute fact that agents of the Russian state have long been consumed with deploying its power. The articles in this issue of the journal, however, make the collective case that this long-running focus on the state has occluded the important and distinctive role played by corporations in Russia—in both the Soviet and post-Soviet periods.