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Rural inequality in divided Russia /
This book examines economic and political polarisation in post-Soviet Russia, and in particular analyses the development of rural inequality. It discusses how rural inequality has developed in post-Soviet Russia, and how it differs from the Soviet period, and goes on to look at the factors that affe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Colección: | Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series ;
47. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and table; Preface; List of acronyms; Part I: Context; 1. Rural inequality in the Soviet period; The Soviet legacy; After Stalin; The Brezhnev period; The Gorbachev period; Conclusion; 2. Inequality in post-Soviet Russia; The theoretical underpinnings; Democracy and democratization; Social stability; The good society; Economic growth; Inequality in post-Soviet Russia; Stratification and public opinion; Concentration of wealth and new social structure; The rise and fall of mass poverty; The fall of mass poverty.
- Increase in regional inequalityConclusion; 3. Rural inequality and agrarian capitalism in post-Soviet Russia; Methodological issues; Change in opportunities through agrarian capitalism; Inequality in contemporary rural Russia; An increase in urban-rural inequality; An increase in rural income inequality; An increase in rural wealth inequality; Changes in sources of income; Rural social structure; Inequality and Russia's agrarian capitalism; Conclusion; 4. Rural poverty in post-Soviet Russia; The measurement of poverty; An overview of Russia's rural poverty; Income poverty; Wealth poverty.
- Why are Russia's poor so poor?Government policy; Structural factors and rural poverty; Behavioral factors and rural poverty; Conclusion; Part II: Factors affecting rural inequality; 5. Rural inequality and human and social capital; Approaches to human and social capital; Sociodemographic trends in rural Russia; Household labor; Household labor and income; Household labor and wealth; Social capital; Social capital and income; Social capital and household wealth; What is to be done?; Conclusion; 6. Rural inequality and profession; Profession-based inequality in perspective.
- Change in hierarchy of positionInter-profession differentiation: income and wealth; Distribution of income across profession; Intra-cohort stratification; Farm managers; Farm workers; Private farmers; Change in determinants of professional inequality; The question of class; Is there a rural bourgeoisie?; Is there a rural middle class?; Conclusion; 7. Rural inequality and gender; Work and rural women in the Soviet period; Gendered effects of market reform; Rural reform and the gender gap; Monetary income inequality; Income inequality across profession; Wealth inequality.
- Differing responses to non-agricultural employment opportunitiesConclusion; 8. Rural inequality and location; A brief literature review; The forgotten; Consequences of being forgotten; Black holes; Stratification in forested villages; The structure of household income and employment; Location and inequality within raions; Contrasting hypotheses; Household characteristics and the impact of village location; Conclusion; Part III: Consequences; 9. Inequality and Russia's future; Why Russia's inequality matters; Inequality and institutions; Inequality and peasant moral economy.