What Made Russians Skeptics About Democratic Capitalism?
Did the collapse of the Soviet Union—and the tumultuous years which followed—help shape Russians’ attitudes toward capitalism and democracy in the Putin era? If so, how; and why would the effects of the Soviet collapse still be felt and manifest thirty years later? In this episode, economist Will Pyle joins RCGA director Mark Williams to unravel this puzzle.
In this episode, Mark Williams talks with Will Pyle, the Frederick C. Dirks Professor of International Economics at Middlebury College, about recent findings he published in the journal Post-Soviet Affairs. Their discussion explores why Russians of a certain cohort—although liberated from the economic and political constraints of Soviet Communism—are not the strong enthusiasts of democracy and capitalism which many westerners believed they would become after the USSR collapsed.
Show Notes:
Presented by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs at Middlebury College.
Music Credits
Show Notes:
Presented by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs at Middlebury College.
Music Credits
- Forte by Ketsa - Summer with Sound Album
- Soul Zone by Ketsa - Light Rising Album
Produced by Margaret A. DeFoor and Mark Williams.
