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The article examines the role of violent entrepreneurship in the process of state- and market building in post-communist Russia. The crisis of the state is the reason for the boom of violent entrepreneurship that can be classified into three different types, depending on their relation to the state. Main emphasis is put on the relationship between the recently emerging forms of commercialization of violence and the criminal world. The article shows how violent commercial organizations interact with state authorities and regular business companies.
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Vadim Volkov, Dekan der Fakultät für Politische Wissenschaften und Soziologie an der Europäischen Universität St. Petersburg, 3 Furmanov St., Petersburg 191187, Russland
Originalbeitrag, aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Gisela Schillings. — Die englische Transkription russischer Begriffe wurde bei der Übersetzung beibehalten. Eine kürzere Fassung erschien in der Zeitschrift Europe Asia Studies 5 (Juni) 1999.
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Volkov, V. Gewaltunternehmer im postkommunistischen Russland. Leviathan 28, 173–191 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11578-000-0012-4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11578-000-0012-4