1st Edition
Small-Town Russia Postcommunist Livelihoods and Identities: A Portrait of the Intelligentsia in Achit, Bednodemyanovsk and Zubtsov, 1999-2000
By Anne White
Copyright 2004
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines a number of key questions about social change in contemporary Russia - issues such as how people survive when they are not paid for months on end, 'the New Poor', the falling birth rate, why so many Russian men die in middle age, whether regional identities are becoming stronger, and how people's sense of 'Russianness' has developed since the creation of the Russian Federation... Read more
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Socio-Economic and Demographic Trends in Russia and its Regions 2. Characteristics of Small Towns across Russia: Sub-Regional Variation in Living Standards and Population Trends 3. The Fieldwork Towns and their Regions 4. State Sector Employees: the New Poor 5. Livelihood Strategies 6. The Intelligentsia, the 'Middle Class' and Social Stratification 7. Civil Society and Politics 8. Multiple Identities: Local, Regional, Ethnic, National Conclusions Appendix 1: Interview Schedule Appendix 2: Household Composition, Livelihoods and Identities: Five Case Studies Bibliography Index
Biography
Anne White is Senior Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies, University of Bath. She is the author of De-Stalinization and the House of Culture: declining state control over leisure in the USSR, Poland and Hungary, 1953-89 (Routledge, 1990) and Democratization in Russia under Gorbachev, 1985-1991: the birth of a voluntary sector (Macmillan, 1999).
