Consumption, values, and social change in a post-Soviet middle class
By: Jennifer Patico.
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C. ; Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780804700696; 9780804761697
Subjects: Middle class -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg -- Economic conditions; Professional employees -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg -- Economic conditions; Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg; Social change -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg; Standard of living -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg; Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Economic conditions; Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The price of bananas and the value of postsocialist subjects; title: Finding-and losing-one's place in the middle; title: Teachers and bandits : logics of value at school and beyond; title: Consumer dilemmas and the state of Russian civilization; title: Femininity and the work and leisure of consumption; title: "Signs of attention" : gifts and the recognition of social worlds; title: A more "normal" future?