Everyday life in Russia past and present / edited by Choi Chatterjee [and three others] ; afterword by Sheila Fitzpatrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fitzpatrick, Sheila, author of afterword, colophon, etc.

Contributor:

Chatterjee, Choi, editor.

Series:

Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies.

Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russia--Social life and customs--Congresses.

Russia.

Soviet Union--Social life and customs--Congresses.

Soviet Union.

Russia (Federation)--Social life and customs--Congresses.

Russia (Federation).

Russia--Social conditions--Congresses.

Soviet Union--Social conditions--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (443 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In these original essays on long-term patterns of everyday life in pre-revolutionary, 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: The Genesis and Themes of Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present

Part I. Approaches to Everyday Life

1. The Scholarship of Everyday Life / David L. Ransel

2. Provincial Nobles, Elite History, and the Imagination of Everyday Life / Mary Cavender

3. Resisting Resistance : Everyday Life, Practical Competence, and Neoliberal Rhetoric in Postsocialist Russia / Olga Shevchenko

4. The Oil Company and the Crafts Fair : From Povsednevnost' to Byt in Postsocialist Russia / Douglas Rogers

Part II. Public Identities and Public Space

5. "We Don't Talk about Ourselves" : Women Academics Recall Their Path to Success / Natalia Pushkareva

6. The Literature of Everyday Life and Popular Representations of Motherhood in Brezhnev's Time / Elizabeth Skomp

7. "They Are Taking That Air from Us" : Sale of Commonly Enjoyed Properties to Private Developers / David L. Ransel

Part III. Living Space and Personal Choice

8. Everyday Life and the Problem of Conceptualizing Public and Private during the Khrushchev Era / Deborah A. Field

9. Soviet Mass Housing and the Communist Way of Life / Steven E. Harris

10. Everyday Aesthetics in the Khrushchev-Era Standard Apartment / Susan E. Reid

11. The Post-Soviet Kommunalka : Continuity and Difference? / Ilya Utekhin

Part IV. Myth, Memory, and the History of Everyday Life

12. Everyday Stalinism in Transition-Era Film / Peter C. Pozefsky

13. Totality Decomposed : Objectalizing Late Socialism in Post-Soviet Biochronicles / Serguei Oushakine

14. Everyday Life and the Ties That Bind in Liudmila Ulitskaia's Medea and Her Children / Benjamin Sutcliffe

Part V. Coming Home : Transnational Connections

15. Sino-Soviet Every Day : Chinese Revolutionaries in Moscow Military Schools, 1927-1930 / Elizabeth McGuire

16. Coming Home Soviet Style : The Reintegration of Afghan Veterans into Soviet Everyday Life / Karen Petrone

17. Everyday Life in Transnational Perspective : Consumption and Consumerism, 1917-1939 / Choi Chatterjee

Afterword / Sheila Fitzpatrick.

Notes:

Papers from an interdisciplinary workshop entitled "Everyday Life in Russia and the Soviet Union," held in May 2010 on Indiana University's Bloomington campus.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-01260-0

OCLC:

902909712