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Explores housing cooperatives as legacies of state socialism & alternatives to state capitalism, delineating how indigenous & exogenous factors worked to undermine them. To set the context, Zaslavskaya's take on Brezhnev's "mature socialism" is viewed as correct, & the nature of changes to the economic system are examined, leading up to Gorbachev's major restructuring. To explore how this restructuring can be seen as a major schism in the underpinning social philosophy & mode of organization, the recent history of Russian cooperatives is detailed in terms of the 1980s cooperative revival & the cultural & ideological context. Cooperatives cultivate social relations with (1) the shadow economy, (2) economic functionaries, & (3) salaried Communist Party members. Public hostility toward cooperatives is addressed, along with their vulnerabilities & policy alternatives. In citing the pervasiveness of organized crime & corruption in Russia, the specificity of Russian capitalism & culture is noted, drawing on Max Weber's six ideal types of capitalist orientation. Ensuing discussion leads to the notion of social analysis based on path dependency &, thus, an exploration of the Soviet legacy based on the idea of the "distributional economy." The late-1980s emergence of cooperatives is attributed to the executive of the modern state acting as a "committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie." Two groups coalesced around the idea of cooperatives: (A) One group formed an embryonic capitalist class. (B) The second group centered on corruption, embezzlement, & cronyism. Cooperatives were the battleground for these groups, with the outcome a Russian type of capitalism. J. Zendejas

Explores housing cooperatives as legacies of state socialism & alternatives to state capitalism, delineating how indigenous & exogenous factors worked to undermine them. To set the context, Zaslavskaya's take on Brezhnev's "mature socialism" is viewed as correct, & the nature of changes to the economic system are examined, leading up to Gorbachev's major restructuring. To explore how this restructuring can be seen as a major schism in the underpinning social philosophy & mode of organization, the recent history of Russian cooperatives is detailed in terms of the 1980s cooperative revival & the cultural & ideological context. Cooperatives cultivate social relations with (1) the shadow economy, (2) economic functionaries, & (3) salaried Communist Party members. Public hostility toward cooperatives is addressed, along with their vulnerabilities & policy alternatives. In citing the pervasiveness of organized crime & corruption in Russia, the specificity of Russian capitalism & culture is noted, drawing on Max Weber's six ideal types of capitalist orientation. Ensuing discussion leads to the notion of social analysis based on path dependency &, thus, an exploration of the Soviet legacy based on the idea of the "distributional economy." The late-1980s emergence of cooperatives is attributed to the executive of the modern state acting as a "committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie." Two groups coalesced around the idea of cooperatives: (A) One group formed an embryonic capitalist class. (B) The second group centered on corruption, embezzlement, & cronyism. Cooperatives were the battleground for these groups, with the outcome a Russian type of capitalism. J. Zendejas