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Not by bread alone : social support in the new Russia / Melissa L. Caldwell

Caldwell, Melissa L.,i1969- [Verfasser]

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xv, 242 pages) : Illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index

978-0-520-93725-3 ; 0-520-93725-2 ; 1-4175-0826-4 ; 978-1-4175-0826-6 ; 0-520-23875-3 ; 978-0-520-23875-6 ; 0-520-23876-1 ; 978-0-520-23876-3 ; 1-59734-778-7 ; 978-1-59734-778-5 ; 0-520-23875-3

LB 45325 LC 17325

What Muscovites get in a soup kitchen run by the Christian Church of Moscow is something far more subtle and complex--if no less necessary and nourishing--than the food that feeds their hunger. In Not by Bread Alone, the first full-length ethnographic study of poverty and social welfare in the postsocialist world, Melissa L.