20:00 - 22:00
University of Kassel, Kassel
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Since the beginning of the Ukraine war, there has been almost unanimous talk of Putin's war and the internal social conditions in Russia and in the post-Soviet space have been neglected.
Felix Jaitner argues in a recently published article in PROKLA (2022 / Nr. 3), that the unrestricted neoliberal restructuring in the early transformation phase of the Russian Federation towards a resource-extractivist production model, was largely secured by an authoritarian restructuring of the political system and became even worse after Putin took office.
The Kremlin's expansive foreign policy is therefore also a reaction to the various domestic policies To understand crisis processes of this development in Russia and the post-Soviet space. The prehistory of the war is therefore also a history of the introduction of capitalism into the emerging post-Soviet nation states.
Felix Jaitner did his doctorate on development conflicts in the Russian power bloc. He directs the climate- and environmental sector of the Exchange e.V., an NGO in Berlin.