Rural inequality in divided Russia / Stephen K. Wegren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wegren, Stephen K., 1956- author.

Series:

Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series ; 47.

Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality--Russia (Federation).

Equality.

Polarization (Social sciences)--Russia (Federation).

Polarization (Social sciences).

Russia (Federation)--Rural conditions--Regional disparities.

Russia (Federation).

Russia (Federation)--Rural conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines economic and political polarisation in post-Soviet Russia, and in particular analyses the development of rural inequality. It discusses how rural inequality has developed in post-Soviet Russia, and how it differs from the Soviet period, and goes on to look at the factors that affect rural stratification and inequality, using human and social capital, profession, gender, and village location as independent variables. The book uses survey data from rural households and fieldwork in Russia in order to highlight the multiplicity of divisions that act as fault lines in contemporary rural Russia.

Contents:

Rural inequality in the Soviet period

Inequality in post-Soviet Russia

Rural inequality and agrarian capitalism in post-Soviet Russia

Rural poverty in post-Soviet Russia

Factors affecting rural inequality

Rural inequality and human and social capital

Rural inequality and profession

Rural inequality and gender

Rural inequality and location

Consequences

Inequality and Russia's future.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 28, 2013).

ISBN:

1-138-64343-2

1-135-01829-4

0-203-76056-5

1-135-01830-8

9780203760567

OCLC:

859160036