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- Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Indiana University Press
summary
In this ethnography of postsocialist Moscow in the late 1990s, Olga Shevchenko draws on interviews with a cross-section of Muscovites to describe how people made sense of the acute uncertainties of everyday life, and the new identities and competencies that emerged in response to these challenges. 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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xi
- 5. Permanent Crisis, Durable Goods
- pp. 88-112
- 6. Building Autonomy in Everyday Life
- pp. 113-143
- 7. What Changes When Life Stands Still
- pp. 144-171
- 8. Conclusion
- pp. 172-178
- Appendix 1. Methodology
- pp. 179-190
- Appendix 2. List of Respondents
- pp. 191-194
- Appendix 4. Discussion Topics
- pp. 196-198
- Works Cited
- pp. 221-234
Additional Information
ISBN
9780253002570
Related ISBN(s)
9780253352484
MARC Record
OCLC
648273691
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No