Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present

"In these original essays on long-term patterns of everyday life in pre-revolutionary, Soviet, and contemporary Russia, distinguished scholars survey the cultural practices, power relations, and behaviors that characterized daily existence for Russians through the post-Soviet present. Microanalyses and transnational perspectives shed new light on the formation and elaboration of gender, ethnicity, class, nationalism, and subjectivity. Changes in consumption and communication patterns, the restructuring of familial and social relations, systems of cultural meanings, and evolving practices in the home, at the workplace, and at sites of leisure are among the topics explored"--

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• Assisted by: Mary Cavender (Editor), David L. Ransel (Editor), Choi Chatterjee (Editor), Karen Petrone (Editor), Mary W. Cavender (Editor), David L Ransel (Editor), Afterword by Sheila Fitzpatrick Edited b (Editor), David Ransel (Editor)
• Authors: Kate Brown, Choi (EDT)/ Ransel Chatterjee, Choi Ransel Chatterjee
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 29.01.2015
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780253012548
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01254-8
• Pages: 448
• Series: Indiana-Michigan Series in Rus; Indiana-Michigan Series in Rus; Indiana-Michigan Russian and E; Indiana University Press (IPS)