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Ideology and Philosophy of the Successful Regional Development in Contemporary Russia

The Belgorod Case

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ID4407643
AuthorsAlexander Nikulin (0000-0001-7623-7985, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, corresponding author), Irina Trotsuk (0000-0002-2279-3588, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration), A M Nikulin, K Wegren (0000-0003-2846-2306, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration), I V Trotsuk, Wegren
Year2018
Volume3
Issue1
Pages99-116
Publication date2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRussian Peasant Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2500-1809 • E-ISSN: 2949-2564
PublisherRussian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (PUBLISHER • RU)
DOI10.22394/2500-1809-2018-3-1-99-116
OpenAlexW2799927242
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited4

The article considers economic successes of the Belgorod region as significantly determined by the governor Yevgeny Savchenko' agrarian policies, which compensate for the region's small size and modest human capital. In 2017, the authors published an article describing economic policies and social programs of regional authorities; now the authors focus on the leadership by Yevgeny Savchenko, and his rather paradoxical personal and management views. First, according to Max Weber's typology of authority, Savchenko is a charismatic leader with strong personality traits and careful political behavior, who benefits from the traditional Slavophile populism and institutional design of the gubernatorial powers that has allowed governors to become more powerful compared to other regional actors during 2002-2012. Second, the Belgorod governor's project has quite traditional Russian roots in the spirit of A.V. Chayanov's novel "My brother Alexey's journey to the land of peasant utopia", which allowed the Belgorod modernization project to successfully cope with unpredictable challenges from the Russian oligarchy and global economy, and to use competitive standards of consumer society as the grounds for conservative modernization and solidary society development. The Belgorod governor implements his own model of new economy consisting of the extensive development of solidarity and cooperation; ideals of healthy lifestyle; and freedom in choosing ways to work and to rest (regional authorities support corporate, family and individual strategies of life). Third, Savchenko has publicly articulated his personal political-economic theory reflecting a conglomerate of conservative, socialist and populist ideas, and combining anti-liberalism and statist philosophy as the basis for the revival of the Russian state, which the governor sees as an engine of social progress

Agrarian society · Democracy · Ideology · Modernization theory · Oligarchy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Sociology · Law · Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends · Socioeconomic and Demographic Analysis · Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia

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Citations per year1
Citation span2019 - 2026 (8)
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