Rethinking Class in Russia

Herausgeber: Salmenniemi, Suvi

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Social differentiation, poverty and the emergence of the newly rich occasioned by the collapse of the Soviet Union have seldom been analysed from a class perspective. This book addresses this absence by exploring the manner in which class positions are constructed and negotiated in the new Russia.

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By engaging with discussions in new class analysis and by highlighting how the logic of global neoliberal capitalism is appropriated and negotiated vis-à-vis the Soviet hierarchies of value and worth, this book offers a multifaceted and carefully contextualized picture of class relations and identities in contemporary Russia and makes a contribution to the theorisation of class and inequality in a post-Cold War era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9781409421375
• ISBN-10: 1409421376
• Artikelnr.: 41239491

Autorenporträt

Suvi Salmenniemi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland, and author of Democratization and Gender in Contemporary Russia

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Rethinking Class in Russia
Suvi Salmenniemi; Chapter 1 Class Analysis in the USSR and Contemporary Russia
Harri Melin
Suvi Salmenniemi; Part I Class in Public Discourses; Chapter 2 Business for Pleasure: Elite Women in the Russian Popular Media
Saara Ratilainen; Chapter 3 Post-Soviet Khoziain: Class
Self and Morality in Russian Self-help Literature
Suvi Salmenniemi; Chapter 4 Doing Class in Social Welfare Discourses: 'Unfortunate Families' in Russia
Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova
Pavel Romanov; Chapter 5 Political Part ies and the Construction of Social Class in Russia
Sirke Mäkinen; Part II Classed Practices; Chapter 6 Making and Managing Class: Employment of Paid Domestic Workers in Russia
Anna Rotkirch
Olga Tkach
Elena Zdravomyslova; Chapter 7 'We are Not Rich Enough to Buy Cheap Things': Clothing Consumption of the St. Petersburg Middle Class
Olga Gurova; Chapter 8 Women's Use of Legal Advice and Claims in Contemporary Russia: The Impact of Gender and Class
Vikki Turbine; Part III Living Class; Chapter 9 Wealth Brings Health? Class
Body and Health in Russia
Marja Rytkönen
Ilkka Pietilä; Chapter 10 Class Differences and Social Mobility amongst College-educated Young People in Russia
Elena Trubina; Chapter 11 Re-inventing Themselves? Gender
Employment and Subjective Well-being amongst Young Working-class Russians
Charles Walker; Chapter 12 The Excluded Class: Russia's Forgotten Middle-aged Men
John Round; Chapter 13 Afterword: Thinking and Rethinking Class
Steph Lawler;