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Making the new post-Soviet person : moral experience in contemporary Moscow / by Jarrett Zigon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zigon, Jarrett.
- Series:
- Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 5.
- Russian history and culture, 1877-7791 ; v. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Post-communism--Social aspects--Russia (Federation)--Moscow.
- Post-communism.
- Ethics--Russia (Federation)--Moscow.
- Ethics.
- Individuality--Russia (Federation)--Moscow.
- Individuality.
- Social values--Russia (Federation)--Moscow.
- Social values.
- Social change--Russia (Federation)--Moscow.
- Social change.
- Interviews--Russia (Federation)--Moscow.
- Interviews.
- Moscow (Russia)--Social conditions.
- Moscow (Russia).
- Moscow (Russia)--Moral conditions.
- Moscow (Russia)--Biography.
- Russia (Federation)--Social conditions--1991-.
- Russia (Federation).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (269 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The post-Soviet years have widely been interpreted as a period of intense moral questioning, debate, and struggle. Despite this claim few studies have revealed how this moral experience has been lived and articulated by Russians themselves. This book provides an intimate portrait of how five Muscovites have experienced the post-Soviet years as a period of intense refashioning of their moral personhood, and how this process can only be understood at the intersection of their unique personal experiences, a shared Russian/Soviet history, and increasingly influential global discourses and practices. The result is a new approach to understanding everyday moral experience and the processes by which new moral persons are cultivated.
- Contents:
- Backgrounds
- A window within the window
- Post-Soviet social and personal transformations
- Articulating morality in contemporary Russia
- The anthropology of moralities
- Theory of moral breakdown
- Life history and experience
- Narratives
- Locating my interlocutors
- Olya
- Larisa
- Olya and Larisa
- Dima
- Anna
- Aleksandra Vladimirovna
- Some conclusions
- Morality and personhood
- Range of possibilities
- Morality and new post-Soviet personhood.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-78692-X
- 9786612786921
- 90-04-19349-9
- OCLC:
- 667293852
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004183711.i-259 DOI
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