Соучастники. Почему российская элита выбрала войну (твердый переплет)

Posle vtorzhenyya Rossyy v Ukraynu mnogye ozhydaly, chto polytycheskaya y ekonomycheskaya elyta popytaetsya ostanovyt nachatuyu Putynym voynu. V tom chysle, chtoby sokhranyt pryvychnyy obraz zhyzny. Etogo ne proyzoshlo. Naoborot, tekhnokraty y gosbyznes staly glavnymy oporamy putynskoy voennoy ekonomyky.Osnovannaya na desyatkakh yntervyu knyga Aleksandry Prokopenko obyasnyaet, kak za dva desyatyletyya pravyashchyy sloy Rossyy proshyol «psevdomorfozu»: sokhranyv vneshnye atrybuty vlasty, on utratyl vnutrennyuyu avtonomyyu y stal ynstrumentom upravlenyya.V knyge proslezhyvaetsya moralnaya karera rossyyskoy byurokratycheskoy verkhushky — ot lyberalnykh ydealov k loyalnosty y praktychesky polnoy depolytyzatsyy, — y pokazyvaet, kak voyna uskoryla etu transformatsyyu. Cherez chastnye ystoryy, nablyudenyya y sotsyologycheskyy analyz knyga razyasnyaet, pochemu segodnyashnee vysshye rossyyskye rukovodytely mynystry, gosbankyry, vysokopostavlennye sylovyky perestaly byt elytoy y prevratylys v bezvolnyy mekhanyzm personalystskogo rezhyma.

After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, many expected that the political and economic elite would try to stop the war started by Putin. In particular, to maintain a habitual lifestyle. This did not happen. On the contrary, technocrats and state business have become the main pillars of Putin's military economy.Alexandra Prokopenko's book, based on dozens of interviews, explains how over two decades the ruling stratum of Russia underwent a "pseudo-transformation": while retaining the external attributes of power, it lost its internal autonomy and became a management tool.The book traces the moral career of the Russian bureaucratic elite — from liberal ideals to loyalty and almost complete depoliticization — and shows how the war accelerated this transformation. Through private stories, observations, and sociological analysis, the book explains why today's top Russian leaders, ministers, state bankers, and high-ranking security officials have ceased to be the elite and turned into a weak-willed mechanism of a personalistic regime.