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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- A note on transliteration -- Introduction: Climate Change and Its Implications for Russia -- 1 The Politics of Climate Change in Russia -- 2 The Twilight of Russian Oil? -- 3 Can Natural Gas Replace Oil? -- 4 Russia's Coal Dilemma -- 5 Renewables: A Slow Start -- 6 The Revival of Russian Nuclear Power -- 7 Russia's Agricultural Renaissance -- 8 A Tale of Two Arctics -- 9 Metals -- Conclusion: The Reckoning Ahead -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. Two Worlds of Gas -- 2. The Beginnings of the Gas Bridge -- 3. From Optimism to Anxiety -- 4. Norway and the Rise of the North Sea -- 5. Soviet Gas: The Last Hurrah -- 6. Crossing the Channel: The Neoliberal Tide Reaches Brussels -- 7. Brussels: Marching to Market -- 8. The Battle for Germany -- 9. Gazprom Survives and Gets Away -- 10. Gazprom under Pressure -- 11. Russia and Ukraine: Conflict and Collusion -- 12. Russian-German Gas Relations -- 13. Battle Joined, War Averted -- Conclusion: The Future of the Gas Bridge -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Main description: The world's largest exporter of oil is facing mounting problems that could send shock waves through every major economy. Gustafson provides an authoritative account of the Russian oil industry from the last years of communism to its uncertain future. The stakes extend beyond global energy security to include the threat of a destabilized Russia.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Breakup: The Soviet Oil Industry Disintegrates -- 2. Riding Chaos: The Battle for Ownership, Money, and Power -- 3. The Birth of the Russian Majors: LUKoil, Surgutneftegaz, and Yukos -- 4. Worlds in Collision: The Foreigners Arrive in Russia -- 5. The Russian "Oil Miracle": 1999- 2004 -- 6. The Brothers from Saint Petersburg: The Origins of Putin's State Capitalism -- 7. "Chudo" Meets "Russian Bear": The Yukos Affair -- 8. Russia's Accidental Oil Champion: The Rise of Rosneft -- 9. Krizis: The Rude Awakening of 2008- 2009 and the Russian Oil-Tax Dilemma -- 10. Strong Thumbs, Weak Fingers: How the State Regulates the Oil Industry -- 11. The Half- Raised Curtain: The Foreign Companies as Agents of Change -- 12. Three Colors of Oil: The Coming Crisis of Oil Rents -- 13. Looking Ahead: Oil and the Future of Russia -- Russia and the Future of Oil -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

The Russian oil industry is facing mounting problems that could send shock waves through the Russian economy and worldwide. This book provides an authoritative account of this vital industry from the last years of communism to its uncertain future. Tracking the interdependence among Russia's oil industry, politics, and economy, the author shows how the stakes extend beyond international energy security to include the potential threat of a destabilized Russia. The author draws on interviews with key players over the course of two decades to provide a detailed history of the oil industry's evolution since the breakup of the Soviet Union. At its center is the complex and fraught relationship between the oil industry and the state, which loosened its grip under Yeltsin only to tighten it again under Putin. As oil becomes harder to find and more expensive to produce and deliver, Russia's growing dependence on revenue from oil exports, along with its inefficient and often-corrupt management of the industry, is unsustainable.

Although the Soviet Union has the most abundant energy reserves of any country, energy policy has been the single most disruptive factor in its industry since the mid-1970s. This major case study treats the paradox of the energy crisis as an essential part of larger economic problems of the Soviet Union and as a key issue in determining the fate of the Gorbachev reforms. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

This book examines the record of the Brezhnev regime in its only major domestic innovation: the attempt to modernise Soviet agriculture. Under Brezhnev, the Soviets have invested more than half a trillion dollars in the countryside, but the Kremlin has remarkably little to show for the effort. The reason for the poor return, Gustafson argues is that it is fundamentally flawed because it has been conducted along traditional Soviet lines. For all its innovative features the agricultural programme resembles nothing so much as the Stalinist industrialising campaigns of the fifties. The Soviets cannot afford another such 'reform'. Consequently the agricultural programme cannot stand as a model for meeting the complex problems the Soviets will have to deal with in the next twenty years. Gustafson asserts that whatever solution they devise will depend on whether the Soviet political elite can develop resources and instruments of power more appropriate to the needs of a mature industrial economy. But whether such changes are possible rests on fundamental questions about the essence of power in the Soviet regime