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Day: 31 December 2018

Russia

Consolidating Russia’s gangster capitalism

December 31, 2018 Niall Mulholland, first published in Socialism Today (Issue 222, October 2018), monthly journal of the Socialist Party England & Wales

Vladimir Putin rose to power after the collapse of the Soviet Union, as gangster capitalism seized hold of Russia. Emulating aspects of Stalin’s ‘strongman’ image, he has sought to reassert Russian power on the world […]

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