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Informationen zum Autor Olga Shevchenko Klappentext Ranging from consumption to daily rhetoric, and from urban geography to health care, this study illuminates the relationship between crisis and normality and adds a new dimension to the debates about postsocialist culture and politics. Zusammenfassung Drawing on interviews with a cross-section of Muscovites, this study recounts how people made sense of the acute uncertainties of everyday life. It describes the identities and competencies that emerged in response to these challenges in various domains, from consumption and daily rhetoric to urban geography and health care. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Living on a Volcano 2. How the Crisis of Socialism Became a Postsocialist Crisis 3. A State of Emergency: The Lived Experience of Postsocialist Decline 4. The Routinization of Crisis, or On the Permanence of Temporary Conditions 5. Permanent Crisis, Durable Goods 6. Building Autonomy in Everyday Life 7. What Changes When Life Stands Still 8. Conclusion Appendix 1. Methodology Appendix 2. List of Respondents Appendix 3. List of Interviewed Experts Appendix 4. Discussion Topics Notes Works Cited Index
