Rethinking class in Russia /
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| Imprint: | Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2012. |
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| Description: | xii, 270 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8901276 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: rethinking class in Russia, Suvi Salmenniemi; Class analysis in the USSR and contemporary Russia
- Part I. Class in Public Discourses
- Business for pleasure: elite women in the Russian popular media
- Post-Soviet khoziain: class, self and morality in Russian self-help literature
- Doing class in social welfare discourses: 'unfortunate families' in Russia
- Political parties and the construction of social class in Russia
- Part II. Classed Practices
- Making and managing class: employment of paid domestic workers in Russia
- 'We are not rich enough to buy cheap things': clothing consumption of the St Petersburg middle class
- Women's use of legal advice and claims in contemporary Russia: the impact of gender and class
- Part III. Living Class
- Wealth brings health? Class, body and health in Russia
- Class differences and social mobility amongst college-educated young people in Russia
- Re-inventing themselves? Gender, employment and subjective well-being amongst young working-class Russians
- The excluded class: Russia's forgotten middle-aged men
- Afterword: thinking and rethinking class
- Index
