Small-town Russia : postcommunist livelihoods and identities : a portrait of the intelligentsia in Achit, Bednodemyanovsk and Zubtsov, 1999-2000 /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
RoutledgeCurzon,
©2004.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ;
12. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Socio-economic and demographic trends in Russia and its regions
- Characteristics of small towns across Russia : sub-regional variation in living standards and population trends
- The fieldwork towns and their regions
- State sector employees : the new poor
- Livelihood strategies
- The intelligentsia, the 'middle class' and social stratification
- Civil society and politics
- Multiple identities : local, regional, ethnic, national
- Conclusions.