Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist MoscowIn this ethnography of postsocialist Moscow in the late 1990s, Olga Shevchenko draws on interviews with a cross-section of Muscovites to describe how people made sense of the acute uncertainties of everyday life, and the new identities and competencies that emerged in response to these challenges. Ranging from consumption to daily rhetoric, and from urban geography to health care, this study illuminates the relationship between crisis and normality and adds a new dimension to the debates about postsocialist culture and politics. |
Contents
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The Lived Experience of Postsocialist Decline | 35 |
4 The Routinization of Crisis or On the Permanence of Temporary Conditions | 62 |
5 Permanent Crisis Durable Goods | 88 |
6 Building Autonomy in Everyday Life | 113 |
7 What Changes When Life Stands Still | 144 |
8 Conclusion | 172 |
Appendix 2 List of Respondents | 191 |
Appendix 3 List of Interviewed Experts | 195 |
Appendix 4 Discussion Topics | 196 |
Notes | 199 |
Works Cited | 221 |
Index | 235 |
Back cover | 243 |
Appendix 1 Methodology | 179 |
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