DOI: 10.17072/2078-7898/2017-3-444-459

PRIVATIZATION OF PROPERTY IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIA:
SOCIAL RADICALISM AND ECONOMIC EFFECTIVENESS

Belyaeva Ludmila Alexandrovna
Doctor of Sociology, Leading Research of the Centre
for the Study of Social and Cultural Change

Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences,
12/1, Goncharnaya str., Moscow, 109240, Russia;
e-mail: bela46@mail.ru
ORCID: 0000-0003-0538-7331

The article discusses the problems and social consequences of privatization of state property in Russia. The author analyses social content of property relations, their relationship with legal and economic relations and their influence on radical social changes in the life of Russia. Desocialization of property up to now was considered as a key strategy for economic reform, but its implementation did not lead to an increase in the efficiency of the economy and did not generate the owner who could operate under conditions of market competition. The article shows that technical potential of peace-time industries has decreased, the number of people employed in the industrial sector has decreased, the growth of high-tech and information services has lagged behind the needs of the innovative economy. The reasons for this downfall are rooted in insufficient preparation of the legal and institutional framework for the transformation of property relations, primarily with respect to large state-owned enterprises. The developed mixed economy evolves within the framework of the «power – property» system, which significantly reduces the independence of entrepreneurs, limits their investment activity, stimulates the «escape» of capital abroad and parasitic consumption. The structure of the economy - sectoral and by forms of ownership, as can be judged from the results achieved over two and a half decades, is not effective. In modern conditions for economic recovery and development there are no incentives that direct the creative energy of the most active subjects of development — entrepreneurs and the middle class. It can be assumed, that at the new stage of economic development, the role of the state and state enterprises will increase, but at the same time, it is necessary to improve the institutional conditions of entrepreneurial activity.

Keywords: social property relations, desocialization of property, mixed economy, «power – ownership», economic structure, corruption, entrepreneurs, middle class.

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The date of the manuscript receipt 03.06.2017

Please cite this article in English as:

Belyaeva L.A. Privatization of property in Post-Soviet Russia: social radicalism and economic effectiveness // Perm University Herald. Series «Philosophy. Psychology. Sociology». 2017. Iss. 3. P.444–459. DOI: 10.17072/2078-7898/2017-3-444-459

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