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Contents Acknowledgments ix 1. Introduction: Living on a Volcano 1 2. How the Crisis of Socialism Became a Postsocialist Crisis 15 3. A State of Emergency: The Lived Experience of Postsocialist Decline 35 4. The Routinization of Crisis, or On the Permanence of Temporary Conditions 62 5. Permanent Crisis, Durable Goods 88 6. Building Autonomy in Everyday Life 113 7. What Changes When Life Stands Still 144 8. Conclusion 172 Appendix 1. Methodology 179 Appendix 2. List of Respondents 191 Appendix 3. List of Interviewed Experts 195 Appendix 4. Discussion Topics 196 Notes 199 Works Cited 221 Index 235 ...

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