1st Edition
Social Distinctions in Contemporary Russia Waiting for the Middle-Class Society?
Introduction
Jouko Nikula and Mikhail Chernysh
Chapter 1: Specifities of middle-class structuration in Russia.
Markku Kivinen
Chapter 2: The structure of the Russian middle class
Mikhail Chernysh
Chapter 3: The scale and dynamics of employment precarity in Russian society from 1998 to 2015.
Yulia Epikhina
Chapter 4: Social mobility: A theoretical and empirical perspective
Mikhail Chernysh
Chapter 5: The role of the state and performance of the welfare state in Russian people’s opinions: What lessons can be learned with respect to the welfare regime and class situation?
Markku Sippola and Katri-Maria Järvinen
Chapter 6: Working life in Russia
Harri Melin
Chapter 7: Housing the middle class
Marina Khmelnitskaya and Aleksandra Burdyak
Chapter 8: Poverty and confidence in Russia
Simo Mannila and Markus Kainu
Chapter 9: The structure of Russians’ values in the context of social modernization..
Natalia Mastikova
Chapter 10: Waiting for the Middle class society?
Jouko Nikula and Mikhail Chernysh
Biography
Jouko Nikula is Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Arts, Aleksanteri Institute, the Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Helsinki.
Mikhail Chernysh is First Deputy Director of the Federal Centre of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
