Crisis and the everyday in postsocialist Moscow
By: Olga Shevchenko.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bloomington; Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780253352484; 9780253220288
Subjects: Post-communism -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow; Moscow (Russia) -- Social conditions; Moscow (Russia) -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : living on a volcano; title: How the crisis of socialism became a postsocialist crisis; title: A state of emergency : the lived experience of postsocialist decline; title: The routinization of crisis, or on the permanence of temporary conditions; title: Permanent crisis, durable goods; title: Building autonomy in everyday life; title: What changes when life stands still.