@article{1480780,
      recid = {1480780},
      author = {Konstantinov, Yulian,},
      title = {Power and the people : the state and peripheral  communities in the Russian Far North /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xix, 375 pages) :},
      abstract = {This book discusses state-periphery relations from the  view-point of a reindeer husbandry community in the Russian  Far North (Murmansk Region). The time is the current period  of Putin-led Russia. The analysis is based on the premise  that the mode of current top-power governance can be  described as selective de-centralization. Below a certain  level of state power interests, conflicts get resolved in  favour of local communities. That gains support for the  supreme leadership, and reproduces a Soviet-like reality.  Termed sovkhoism, the latter holds the Soviet state-farm  (sovkhoz) as creating an ideal socio-economic environment.  When issues are of significant interest to superior power,  selection favours cavalier bypassing of people-friendly  concerns. At this level, power acts in an authoritarian  mode, favouring the interests of state power structures in  conjunction with the upper tiers of the loyal oligarchate.  It is shown how this governing mode contains significant  potential for escalating centre vs. periphery tensions.  Yulian Konstantinov is Chair of Bulgarian Society for  Regional Cultural Studies, NGO, Sofia, Bulgaria.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480780},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38306-9},
}