Everyday Post-Socialism
Working-Class Communities in the Russian Margins
Authors: Morris, Jeremy
Free Preview- Includes rich ethnographic data
- Makes a significant contribution to the emerging second generation of literature on postsocialism in sociology, anthropology and area studies that emphasises that there is life beyond crisis
- Focuses on a much underexplored region, 25 years after the Soviet crisis
Buy this book
- About this book
-
This book offers a rich ethnographic account of blue-collar workers’ everyday life in a central Russian industrial town coping with simultaneous decline and the arrival of transnational corporations. Everyday Post-Socialism demonstrates how people manage to remain satisfied, despite the crisis and relative poverty they faced after the fall of socialist projects and the social trends associated with neoliberal transformation. Morris shows the ‘other life’ in today’s Russia which is not present in mainstream academic discourse or even in the media in Russia itself. This book offers co-presence and a direct understanding of how the local community lives a life which is not only bearable, but also preferable and attractive when framed in the categories of ‘habitability’, commitment and engagement, and seen in the light of alternative ideas of worth and specific values. Topics covered include working-class identity, informal economy, gender relations and transnational corporations.
- About the authors
-
Jeremy Morris is Co-director of the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies (CREES) at the University of Birmingham, UK. A disciplinary pluralist, his research aims to capture the actually lived experience of neoliberal and post-socialist transformation in Russia. He is co-editor of The Informal Post-Socialist Economy (2014) and Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces(Palgrave, 2015).
- Reviews
-
“Morris’s ethnographic approach is an immersive one. … this book can confidently be placed on undergraduate and graduate reading lists for courses that relate to contemporary Russia and its recent past across many different disciplines, as well as general courses on comparative post-socialism or informal practices.” (Mark B. Smith, Slavonic and East European Review SEER, Vol. 97 (2), April, 2019)
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
-
-
Introduction: The ‘Worthless’ Dowry of Soviet Industrial Modernity
Pages 3-51
-
Blue-Collar Personhood After the Factory
Pages 53-85
-
Informal Economy: Going Underground but Coming Out of the Shadows
Pages 87-121
-
A Woman’s Kingdom? Affect, Care and Regendering Labour
Pages 123-148
-
Unhomely Presents: Trauma and Values of Endurance Among Older People
Pages 151-188
-
Table of contents (8 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
-
- Book Title
- Everyday Post-Socialism
- Book Subtitle
- Working-Class Communities in the Russian Margins
- Authors
-
- Jeremy Morris
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-349-95089-8
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-349-95089-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-95088-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-95724-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXVII, 261
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
- Topics
