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We trace the rise of the so called oligarchs in post-Soviet Russia and examine their relationship to income … distribution in Russia. When Russia moved to a market economy in the 1990s a new business elite evolved. Russia's distinctive path … across the Russian regions, we test Acemoglu's (2008) proposition that oligarchic societies experience extreme income …

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We trace the rise of the so called oligarchs in post-Soviet Russia and examine their relationship to income … distribution in Russia. When Russia moved to a market economy in the 1990s a new business elite evolved. Russia's distinctive path … across the Russian regions, we test Acemoglu's (2008) proposition that oligarchic societies experience extreme income …