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Post-Soviet social : neoliberalism, social modernity, biopolitics /

The Soviet Union created a unique form of urban modernity, developing institutions of social provisioning for hundreds of millions of people in small and medium-sized industrial cities spread across a vast territory. After the collapse of socialism these institutions were profoundly shaken--casualti...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Collier, Stephen J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2011]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : post-Soviet, post-social?
  • Soviet social modernity
  • The birth of Soviet biopolitics
  • City-building
  • City-building in Belaya Kalitva
  • Consolidation, stagnation, breakup
  • Neoliberalism and social modernity
  • Adjustment problems
  • Budgets and biopolitics : on substantive provisioning and formal
  • Rationalization
  • The intransigence of things
  • Epilogue : an ineffective controversy.