Olga Shevchenko

Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How Russians have navigated large-scale social change

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Ranging from consumption to daily rhetoric, and from urban geography to health care, this study illuminates the relationship between crisis and normality and adds a new dimension to the debates about postsocialist culture and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780253220288
• ISBN-10: 0253220289
• Artikelnr.: 23580891

Autorenporträt

Olga Shevchenko is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Williams College.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Living on a Volcano
2. How the Crisis of Socialism Became a Postsocialist Crisis
3. A State of Emergency: The Lived Experience of Postsocialist Decline
4. The Routinization of Crisis, or On the Permanence of Temporary
Conditions
5. Permanent Crisis, Durable Goods
6. Building Autonomy in Everyday Life
7. What Changes When Life Stands Still
8. Conclusion
Appendix 1. Methodology
Appendix 2. List of Respondents
Appendix 3. List of Interviewed Experts
Appendix 4. Discussion Topics
Notes
Works Cited
Index