The Unmaking of Soviet Life
Subtitle: Everyday Economies After Socialism (Culture and Society After Socialism)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780801487736
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Social history; Transitional economies; Social conditions; Mongolia; Development - Economic Development; Social Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Sociology; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Anthropology - Cultural; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; 1991-; Economic Conditions; Post-Communism; Russia (Federation)
First sentence: Late at night, I was driving through the streets of Ulan-Ude with a Burial friend, and I saw a crowd of people huddled against the wall of a dark building, their shoulders turned against the wind.1