Ilya Matveev
Biographic Data
| ID | 1665052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilya Matveev |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilya |
| FAMILY NAME | Matveev |
| SIGNATURE | MATVEEV I |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West Institute of Management |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4355-3257 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From the Chicago Boys to Hjalmar Schacht
The article studies a set of ideological orientations and policy networks in Russia that could be grouped under the term "technocratic liberalism." It provides an account of the origins of the liberal economic experts, their participation in various reform projects, their political and discursive strategies. The focus is on the contradictions of the technocratic approach to reform as revealed in the discourse and actual practice of the reformers,…
Political Mutations in Present-Day Russia
On April 17, 2023, Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev—both of whom were forced to flee Russia to avoid arrest for their open opposition to Russia’s war against Ukraine—sat down with anthropologist Alexei Yurchak to discuss the war, its origins, and its implications. How, in retrospect, might we trace a red thread from the authoritarian neoliberalism of the early Putin era to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and its pronounced dictatorial tu…
When the Whole Is Less Than the Sum of Its Parts
While Russia became widely known in the 1990s for its experiment in shock therapy, by the mid-2000s the Kremlin pioneered a new set of policies that amounted to the national variant of the developmentalist approach. In this article, we take stock of the Russian developmentalism, focusing on the role of ideas, the institution-building by the federal and regional governments as well as specific developmental policies. While state-oriented, interven…
Losing battle for truth in Russian lecture halls
Between Political and Economic Imperialism
Russia experienced both economic and geopolitical expansion in the 2000s. During this time, the Kremlin and big business worked in tandem to assert Russian influence in post-Soviet space. However, the annexation of Crimea and Russia’s involvement in the war in Eastern Ukraine in 2014 marked a new period that severed the state’s geopolitical strategy and the interests of big capital. While the state continues to engage in open and covert military …
Benefits or services? Politics of welfare retrenchment in Russia, 2014–2017
In the wake of the economic crisis of 2014–2016, the Russian government implemented tough austerity measures, earning the praise of the International Monetary Fund. However, the spending cuts were unevenly distributed across different welfare programmes, budget levels (i.e. federal and regional) as well as across different Russian regions. The article argues that this distribution is indicative of a consistent strategy of blame avoidance similar …
Welfare Restructuring in Russia since 2012
The purpose of this article is to place developments in welfare policy since 2012 in the context of the different models of welfare restructuring in Russia. We focus on President Vladimir Putin’s Decree No. 597, which set out to raise the salaries of doctors, teachers and other categories of public employees. We find that neoliberalism is deeply embedded in policy practice. Furthermore, in order to examine the local effects of national trends in …
Versions of Postcapitalism
Stability’s” End
The article explores the mutual determination of crises that replaced the “stability” of the 2000s in Russia. The period since 2009 witnessed a rapid accumulation and condensation of contradictions in different spheres, from the economic crisis of 2009 to the political crisis of 2011-2012, to the “geopolitical” crisis of 2014, and finally, to the new cycle of the economic crisis that started in 2014. The author establishes the connection between …
The "Two Russias" Culture War
When the protests in Russia erupted in 2011-2013, they soon became encapsulated by one particular interpretation. According to the public discourse supported both by the liberal mainstream and by the Kremlin propagandists, there are two social groups in Russia, almost two distinct nations: an apathetic and conformist people and an enlightened minority (which includes the protesters). This essay proposes that the culture war waged by the liberal o…
Welfare Restructuring in Russia since 2012
The purpose of this article is to place developments in welfare policy since 2012 in the context of the different models of welfare restructuring in Russia. We focus on President Vladimir Putin’s Decree No. 597, which set out to raise the salaries of doctors, teachers and other categories of public employees. We find that neoliberalism is deeply embedded in policy practice. Furthermore, in order to examine the local effects of national trends in …
The "Two Russias" Culture War
When the protests in Russia erupted in 2011-2013, they soon became encapsulated by one particular interpretation. According to the public discourse supported both by the liberal mainstream and by the Kremlin propagandists, there are two social groups in Russia, almost two distinct nations: an apathetic and conformist people and an enlightened minority (which includes the protesters). This essay proposes that the culture war waged by the liberal o…
Benefits or services? Politics of welfare retrenchment in Russia, 2014–2017
In the wake of the economic crisis of 2014–2016, the Russian government implemented tough austerity measures, earning the praise of the International Monetary Fund. However, the spending cuts were unevenly distributed across different welfare programmes, budget levels (i.e. federal and regional) as well as across different Russian regions. The article argues that this distribution is indicative of a consistent strategy of blame avoidance similar …
From the Chicago Boys to Hjalmar Schacht
The article studies a set of ideological orientations and policy networks in Russia that could be grouped under the term "technocratic liberalism." It provides an account of the origins of the liberal economic experts, their participation in various reform projects, their political and discursive strategies. The focus is on the contradictions of the technocratic approach to reform as revealed in the discourse and actual practice of the reformers,…
Between Political and Economic Imperialism
Russia experienced both economic and geopolitical expansion in the 2000s. During this time, the Kremlin and big business worked in tandem to assert Russian influence in post-Soviet space. However, the annexation of Crimea and Russia’s involvement in the war in Eastern Ukraine in 2014 marked a new period that severed the state’s geopolitical strategy and the interests of big capital. While the state continues to engage in open and covert military …
Stability’s” End
The article explores the mutual determination of crises that replaced the “stability” of the 2000s in Russia. The period since 2009 witnessed a rapid accumulation and condensation of contradictions in different spheres, from the economic crisis of 2009 to the political crisis of 2011-2012, to the “geopolitical” crisis of 2014, and finally, to the new cycle of the economic crisis that started in 2014. The author establishes the connection between …
The "Two Russias" Culture War
When the protests in Russia erupted in 2011-2013, they soon became encapsulated by one particular interpretation. According to the public discourse supported both by the liberal mainstream and by the Kremlin propagandists, there are two social groups in Russia, almost two distinct nations: an apathetic and conformist people and an enlightened minority (which includes the protesters). This essay proposes that the culture war waged by the liberal o…
Stability’s” End
The article explores the mutual determination of crises that replaced the “stability” of the 2000s in Russia. The period since 2009 witnessed a rapid accumulation and condensation of contradictions in different spheres, from the economic crisis of 2009 to the political crisis of 2011-2012, to the “geopolitical” crisis of 2014, and finally, to the new cycle of the economic crisis that started in 2014. The author establishes the connection between …
Versions of Postcapitalism
Welfare Restructuring in Russia since 2012
The purpose of this article is to place developments in welfare policy since 2012 in the context of the different models of welfare restructuring in Russia. We focus on President Vladimir Putin’s Decree No. 597, which set out to raise the salaries of doctors, teachers and other categories of public employees. We find that neoliberalism is deeply embedded in policy practice. Furthermore, in order to examine the local effects of national trends in …
Between Political and Economic Imperialism
Russia experienced both economic and geopolitical expansion in the 2000s. During this time, the Kremlin and big business worked in tandem to assert Russian influence in post-Soviet space. However, the annexation of Crimea and Russia’s involvement in the war in Eastern Ukraine in 2014 marked a new period that severed the state’s geopolitical strategy and the interests of big capital. While the state continues to engage in open and covert military …
Benefits or services? Politics of welfare retrenchment in Russia, 2014–2017
In the wake of the economic crisis of 2014–2016, the Russian government implemented tough austerity measures, earning the praise of the International Monetary Fund. However, the spending cuts were unevenly distributed across different welfare programmes, budget levels (i.e. federal and regional) as well as across different Russian regions. The article argues that this distribution is indicative of a consistent strategy of blame avoidance similar …
Losing battle for truth in Russian lecture halls
Political Mutations in Present-Day Russia
On April 17, 2023, Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev—both of whom were forced to flee Russia to avoid arrest for their open opposition to Russia’s war against Ukraine—sat down with anthropologist Alexei Yurchak to discuss the war, its origins, and its implications. How, in retrospect, might we trace a red thread from the authoritarian neoliberalism of the early Putin era to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and its pronounced dictatorial tu…
When the Whole Is Less Than the Sum of Its Parts
While Russia became widely known in the 1990s for its experiment in shock therapy, by the mid-2000s the Kremlin pioneered a new set of policies that amounted to the national variant of the developmentalist approach. In this article, we take stock of the Russian developmentalism, focusing on the role of ideas, the institution-building by the federal and regional governments as well as specific developmental policies. While state-oriented, interven…
From the Chicago Boys to Hjalmar Schacht
The article studies a set of ideological orientations and policy networks in Russia that could be grouped under the term "technocratic liberalism." It provides an account of the origins of the liberal economic experts, their participation in various reform projects, their political and discursive strategies. The focus is on the contradictions of the technocratic approach to reform as revealed in the discourse and actual practice of the reformers,…
Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · History (4 works) · Russia and Soviet political economy (4 works) · Economic history (3 works)