voprecotestВопросы экономикиVoprosy Ekonomiki0042-8736Voprosy Ekonomiki, NP10.32609/0042-8736-2022-4-70-94voprecotest-3693Research ArticleЭКОНОМИЧЕСКАЯ ИСТОРИЯ И ИСТОРИЯ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОЙ МЫСЛИECONOMIC HISTORY AND HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHTВторая русская революция в исторической перспективеThe Second Russian Revolution in historical perspectivehttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1581-9951СонинК. И.SoninK. I.

Сонин Константин Исаакович, кандидат  физико-математических  наук, профессор Чикагского университета и НИУ ВШЭ

Чикаго, Москва

Konstantin I. Sonin

Chicago, Moscow

ksonin@gmail.comЧикагский университет; Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики»Соединённые Штаты АмерикиUniversity of Chicago; HSE UniversityUnited States202207042022047094Copyright © Voprosy Ekonomiki, NP, 20222022Voprosy Ekonomiki, NPVoprosy Ekonomiki, NPhttps://www.vopreco.ru/jour/about/submissions#copyrightNoticehttps://www.vopreco.ru/jour/article/view/3693

Вторая русская революция, события, произошедшие между 1989 и 1992 гг. и приведшие к радикальной трансформации общественных и экономических отношений и политической системы в России, к отделению союзных республик, сравнивается с четырьмя важнейшими революциями прошлого — Американской, Французской, Китайской и Первой русской. Особое внимание уделяется двум концепциям современной политической экономики: во-первых, связывающим обязательствам, невозможность которых в контексте борьбы за власть объясняет, почему попытки реформ политической системы в канун революций были безуспешными; во-вторых, координированным действиям большого числа индивидов в отсутствие единых интересов или какой-то организующей структуры. Это помогает понять механизм событий 1989—1992 гг., который плохо описывается в логике групповых и тем более классовых интересов.

The Second Russian Revolution, an event that took place between 1989 and 1992 and led to a radical transformation of social and economic relations and the political system in Russia, the separation of the Union republics, is compared to four major revolutions of the past: the American, French, Chinese, and First Russian revolutions. Particular attention is paid to two concepts of modern political economy: first, binding commitments, the impossibility of which in the context of power struggles explains why attempts to reform the political system on the eve of revolutions were unsuccessful; second, coordinated action by large numbers of individuals in the absence of common interests or any organizing structure. This helps to understand the mechanism of the events of 1989—1992, which is poorly described in the logic of group interests, and even less so in terms of class interests.

 

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