1st Edition

Attitudes, Poverty and Agency in Russia and Ukraine

Edited By Ann-Mari Sätre, Ildikó Asztalos Morell Copyright 2016
172 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

One of the main ideas behind this book was to trace continuities from the Soviet time to post-Soviet Russia. There are many similarities between Russia and Ukraine, indicating such a continuation. Russia and Ukraine had a lot in common in terms of culture, language and history, partly also because of their common origin. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, however, the two independent... Read more

1. Attitudes, Poverty and Agency in Russia and Ukraine  Ann-Mari Sätre

2. Perceptions of Poverty in Small-town Russia  Alla Varyzgina and Rebecca Kay

3. Homelessness in Ukraine: Structural Causes and Moral Evaluation  Anastasiya Ryabchuk

4. Families’ Ways of Coping with Poverty in Small-town Russia  Ann-Mari Sätre, Alexander Soldatkin and Alla Varyzgina

5. Single Men, Single Stories: Alternative Paths in the Transition from the Late Soviet to the Neoliberal Market Economy in the Light of Life Stories  Ildikó Asztalos Morell and Irina Tiurikova

6. The Ukrainian Power Elite and Poverty Reductive Efforts: An Inquiry into a Selection of Elite Members’ Legislative and Philanthropic Initiatives  Tetiana Kostiuchenko and Hanna Söderbaum

7. Policies Against Poverty in Russia – A Female Responsibility  Ann-Mari Sätre

8. Searching for a New Approach to Face Poverty on the Local Level, a Case Study in a Small Russian Town  Nina Ivashinenko

Biography

Ann-Mari Sätre is Associate Professor in Economics, and a senior lecturer/researcher, at the Centre of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. She specializes in the structure and performance of the Soviet/Russian economy. Her current research focuses on poverty, local development, and women’s work in Russia.

Ildikó Asztalos Morell, is an Associate Professor in Sociology at Mälardalen University, Sweden. She is also a senior research fellow at the Centre of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research interests include gender and economic transition during and after state socialism, welfare systems, and rural transition, with a focus on multiple marginalities in Hungary.