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The unmaking of Soviet life : everyday economies after socialism / Caroline Humphrey.

By: Humphrey, Caroline.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Culture and society after socialism. Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002Description: xxvii, 265 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0801439817 (cloth : alk. paper); 0801487730 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Post-communism -- Russia (Federation) | Post-communism -- Mongolia | Russia (Federation) -- Economic conditions -- 1991- | Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991- | Mongolia -- Economic conditions | Mongolia -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 330.947
Contents:
The politics of locality in an unstable state -- "Icebergs," barter, and the mafia in provincial Russia -- Mythmaking, narratives, and the dispossessed in Russia -- Creating a culture of disillusionment : consumption in Moscow, a chronicle of changing times -- Strategies beyond the law -- Traders, "disorder," and citizenship regimes in provincial Russia -- Russian protection rackets and the appropriation of law and order -- Rethinking bribery in contemporary Russia -- Rethinking personhood -- Avgai Khad : theft and social trust in postcommunist Mongolia -- The domestic mode of production in Post-Soviet Siberia? The villas of the "new Russians" : a sketch of consumption and cultural identity in Post-Soviet landscapes -- Shamans in the city.
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HC340.12 .H86 2002 (Browse shelf) Available 10919

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-258) and index.

The politics of locality in an unstable state -- "Icebergs," barter, and the mafia in provincial Russia -- Mythmaking, narratives, and the dispossessed in Russia -- Creating a culture of disillusionment : consumption in Moscow, a chronicle of changing times -- Strategies beyond the law -- Traders, "disorder," and citizenship regimes in provincial Russia -- Russian protection rackets and the appropriation of law and order -- Rethinking bribery in contemporary Russia -- Rethinking personhood -- Avgai Khad : theft and social trust in postcommunist Mongolia -- The domestic mode of production in Post-Soviet Siberia? The villas of the "new Russians" : a sketch of consumption and cultural identity in Post-Soviet landscapes -- Shamans in the city.

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