The Paradox of Reform in Russia

The state remains the dominant and arguably within its ideology only viable economic agent. There were industrialists even some of them from the peasantry that the Dmedovs emerged in the 70th centuries but on the whole an independent entrepreneurial class had never really developed in Russia largely because the towns themselves have been organized by the state for tax and military conscription it was a closed shop effectively I mean you know Jews tried to get a look in but they were soon expelled to the pale of settlement Germans wanted to get aLook In but they were also penalized not allowed to set up.