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Housing the new Russia /

In Housing the New Russia, Jane R. Zavisca examines Russia's attempts to transition from a socialist vision of housing, in which the government promised a separate, state-owned apartment for every family, to a market-based and mortgage-dependent model of home ownership. In 1992, the post-Soviet...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zavisca, Jane R. (Jane Roj), 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : a painful question
  • The Soviet promise : a separate apartment for every family
  • Transplant failure : the American housing model in Russia
  • Maternity capitalism : grafting pronatalism onto housing policy
  • Property without markets : who got what as markets failed
  • Disappointed dreams : distributive injustice in the new housing order
  • Mobility strategies : searching for the separate apartment
  • Rooms of their own : how housing affects family size
  • Children are not capital : ambivalence about pronatalist housing policies
  • To owe is not to own : why Russians reject mortgages
  • Conclusion : a market that could not emerge.