Déjà vu: economic determinants of Russia’s power in the historical perspective (1890–2020)
Journal: Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej
Year: 2022

What reasons stood behind the instability of the power position of Russia over the last 130 years? This analysis, covering three periods of time: 1890–1913, 1980–1991, and 2000–2020, reveals astonishing similarities of structural economic problems that led to severe economic and socio-political crises. Despite different causes, each time the crisis was triggered by insufficient savings compared to needs resulting from a program of economic modernisation and imperial policy, low competitiveness o