ISBN:
9780415158503
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (245 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition
Parallel Title:
Print version Surviving Post-Socialism : Local Strategies and Regional Responses in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
DDC:
306.0947
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book focuses on survival strategies developed at local levels in response to changing cultural, political and economic structures in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. An interdisciplinary approach is adopted as the contributors engage with questions of gender, ethnicity, migration, nationalism, employment and labour patterns and changing family structures
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: transitions to post-socialism and cultures of survival; 2 When 'land' becomes 'territory': land privatisation and ethnicity in rural Bulgaria; 3 The bullied farmer: social pressure as a survival strategy?; 4 Living in a subterranean landscape: identity politics in post-Soviet Khakassia; 5 'We should build a statue to Ceaucescu here': the trauma of de-collectivisation in two Romanian villages
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Post-communist neighbours: relocating gender in a Greek Albanian border community7 Dealing with fragmentation: the consequences of privatisation for rural women in central and southern Poland; 8 Gypsy self-governments in post-socialist Hungary; 9 Divergent responses to land reform and agricultural restructuring in the Russian Federation; 10 Playing the co-operation game: strategies around international aid in post-socialist Russia; 11 Survival strategies in an industrial town in east Ukraine; 12 Tackling the market: the experience of three Moscow women's organisations; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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