Rethinking class in Russia
By: by Suvi Salmenniemi
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409421382
Subjects: Social stratification; Social conditions; Social classes; Women; Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction rethinking class in Russia / Suvi Salmenniemi; title: Class analysis in the USSR and contemporary Russia / Harri Melin & Suvi Salmenniemi; title: Class in public discourses; title: Business for pleasure : elite women in the Russian popular media / Saara Ratilainen; title: Post-soviet khoziain : class, self and morality in Russian self-help literature / Suvi Salmenniemi; title: Doing class in social welfare discourses : "unfortunate families" in Russia / Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova & Pavel Romanov; title: Political parties and the construction of social class in Russia / Sirke Mäkinen; title: Classed practices; title: Making and managing class : employment of paid domestic workers in Russia / Anna Rotkirch, Olga Tkach & Elena Zdravomyslova; title: "We are not rich enough to buy cheap things" : clothing consumption of the St. Petersburg middle class / Olga Gurova; title: Women's use of legal advice and claims in Russia : the impact of gender and class / Vikki Turbine; title: Living class; title: Wealth brings health? : class, body and health in Russia / Marja Rytkönen & Ilkka Pietilä; title: Class differences and social mobility among the college-educated young people in Russia / Elena Trubina; title: Re-inventing themselves : gender, employment, and subjective well-being amongst working-class young Russians / Charles Walker; title: The excluded class : Russia's forgotten middle-aged men / John Round; title: Afterword thinking and rethinking class / Steph Lawler; title: Index.