Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present

David L Ransel editor Choi Chatterjee editor Karen Petrone editor Mary Cavender editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Indiana University Press

Published:29th Jan '15

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Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present cover

In these original essays on long-term patterns of everyday life in prerevolutionary, Soviet, and contemporary Russia, distinguished scholars survey the cultural practices, power relations, and behaviors that characterized daily existence for Russians through the post-Soviet present. Microanalyses and transnational perspectives shed new light on the formation and elaboration of gender, ethnicity, class, nationalism, and subjectivity. Changes in consumption and communication patterns, the restructuring of familial and social relations, systems of cultural meanings, and evolving practices in the home, at the workplace, and at sites of leisure are among the topics explored.

An engaging look at a vibrant area of research. . . . Highly recommended.

* Choice *

[T]his book is a must-read for any scholar engaging with Russian culture. It explores many unfamiliar facets of everyday Russia and reveals new, unexpected angles of familiar topics.

* The Russian Review *

Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present . . . offers readers a richly theoretical and empirical consideration of the 'state of play' of everyday life as it applies to the interdisciplinary study of Russia.

* Slavic Review *

Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present is an excellent and ambitious edited collection . . . . The authors . . . are some of the best in theeld and their contributions challenge and expand our understanding of the concept of everyday life as lived in prerevolutionary, Soviet, and contemporary Russia.

* Canadian Slavonic Pape

ISBN: 9780253012456

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 748g

448 pages