Rethinking class in Russia / edited by Suvi Salmenniemi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salmenniemi, Suvi, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes--Russia (Federation)--21st century.

Social classes.

Social stratification--Russia (Federation).

Social stratification.

Women--Russia (Federation)--Social conditions.

Women.

Manners and customs.

Russia (Federation).

Social conditions.

Russia (Federation)--Social life and customs--21st century.

Physical Description:

xii, 270 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction rethinking class in Russia / Suvi Salmenniemi

Class analysis in the USSR and contemporary Russia / Harri Melin & Suvi Salmenniemi

Class in public discourses

Business for pleasure : elite women in the Russian popular media / Saara Ratilainen

Post-soviet khoziain : class, self and morality in Russian self-help literature / Suvi Salmenniemi

Doing class in social welfare discourses : "unfortunate families" in Russia / Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova & Pavel Romanov

Political parties and the construction of social class in Russia / Sirke Mäkinen

Classed practices

Making and managing class : employment of paid domestic workers in Russia / Anna Rotkirch, Olga Tkach & Elena Zdravomyslova

"We are not rich enough to buy cheap things" : clothing consumption of the St. Petersburg middle class / Olga Gurova

Women's use of legal advice and claims in Russia : the impact of gender and class / Vikki Turbine

Living class

Wealth brings health? : class, body and health in Russia / Marja Rytkönen & Ilkka Pietilä

Class differences and social mobility among the college-educated young people in Russia / Elena Trubina

Re-inventing themselves : gender, employment, and subjective well-being amongst working-class young Russians / Charles Walker

The excluded class : Russia's forgotten middle-aged men / John Round

Afterword thinking and rethinking class / Steph Lawler

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409421375

1409421376

9781409421382

1409421384

OCLC:

769916198