Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Capitalism in action

Semi-dependent capitalism : Russia

Diversifying the super-rich : Forbes-listed Russians from a Muslim background

The culture of elite philanthropy : Russia and the United Kingdom compared

Between the public and the private : socialism, capitalism and street socialisation in Georgia

Part II. China today and as a future alternative

Making it in China : the determinants of economic success in a socialist market system

The revival of Marxism in China : could it herald a communist reformation?

China’s emerging liberal partnership order and Russian and US responses : Eevidence from the Belt and Road Initiative in Eurasia

Part III. Alternatives in the West

Neo-liberalism, Keynesianism and the current crisis

Political alternatives on the Western Left : Podemos, Syriza, Sanders and Corbyn