GLOBAL IDEALS, LOCAL REALITIES - THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT AND MISSIONARY MANAGEMENT IN RUSSIA

Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, the Western media and Western academics have used the benign rhetorical frames of ''democratization' ', ''privatization'', ''transition to a market economy'' and ''the man agement revolution'' to explain events in post-Soviet Russia. Reframes the rhetoric from these global ideals to the local reality of the ''d evelopment project'' in Russia, interpreting events as a continuing pa ttern of Western violence in which Americans are implicated as ''missi onary managers''.