Development of Ethnic Entrepreneurial Economy: Republic of Bashkortostan Case Study

Abstract

The article demonstrates that the development in rural households of spheres and kinds of activity traditional for the study locality in the post-Soviet period is equally accompanied by augmentation of factors impeding such development and risks that threaten its sustainability in the territory. The study identifies the forms and extent to which a mutual aid network as a basic institutional structure of a rural economy during the transition period is being superseded by market relations as well as positive and negative trends in the changing “institutional appearance” of a rural area.