Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction and methodology; 1 Introduction; 2 Problem statement, research question and temporal parameters; 3 Methodology; 4 Concepts and justifying their use; 5 Structure of this work; Notes; References; 2. A critical historicism for post-Soviet Russia within international political economy; 1 Introduction; 2 Critical historicism and cultural political economy: locating ideas in the historical process; 3 Common sense and polysemicity; 4 Critical IPE, world order and globalising capitalism. 5 ConclusionNotes; References; 3. Examining Russia's post-communist transitional political economy; 1 Introduction; 2 The Russian state amidst the transition towards a market economy; 3 Disintegration and the shaky terrain of Russian capitalism; 4 Putin's statism; 5 The contours of post-Soviet integration into the global political economy; 6 Conclusion; Notes; References; 4. The embedding of Russian state-sanctioned multipolarity in the post-Soviet conjuncture; 1 Introduction; 2 Multipolarity, the Russian state and IPE's globalisation debates. 3 Dimensions of Russia's state-sanctioned multipolarity4 Embedding a multipolar world order; 5 Conclusion; Notes; References; 5. The Russian state, Eurasianism and civilisations in the contemporary global political economy; 1 Introduction; 2 Russia, civilisations and international political economy; 3 Original and contemporary Eurasianism; 4 The Russian state, Eurasianism and the idea of civilisations; 5 Conclusion; Notes; References; 6. Aleksandr Dugin's Eurasianism: co-opting or co-opted in Russia's Putin-era civilisational project?; 1 Introduction. 2 Dugin, historicism and polysemic Eurasianism3 Eurasianism and common-sense geopolitics; 4 Putin's brain or organic intellectual of Russian nationalism?; 5 Conclusion; Notes; References; 7. The legacy of Vladislav Surkov: regime-sanctioned culture in the service of national political economy; 1 Introduction; 2 Locating Surkov, Russian culture and Russia's identity debates; 3 Vladislav Surkov, sovereign democracy, political technologies and Russia's rise; 4 Sovereign democracy realised? Skolkovo, Volodin and beyond; 5 Conclusion; Notes; References; 8. Conclusion; References; Appendix; Index.