Indiana University Press is pleased to announce the recent publication
of:
CRISIS AND THE EVERYDAY IN POSTSOCIALIST MOSCOW
Olga Shevchenko
In this ethnography of postsocialist Moscow in the late 1990s, Olga
Shevchenko draws on interviews with a cross-section of Muscovites
recounting how people made sense of the uncertainties of everyday life,
and the new identities and competencies that emerged from it. 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.
" Elegantly written and insightful, [this book] offers important new
understandings of the struggles and strategies that Russians undertake
to manage life amidst post-Soviet transition." -Michele Rivkin-Fish,
author of Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia
"A sensitive, thoughtful, and compelling portrait of life in Moscow
during the final years of the last century by an observer who truly
knows whereof she speaks. This is ethnography at its best."-Kai Erikson,
William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Sociology and American
Studies, Yale University
256 pp., 9 b&w photos
cloth 978-0-253-35248-4 $65.00
paper 978-0-253-22028-8 $24.95
For more information, please visit:
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?isbn=978-0-253-2
2028-8
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Living on a Volcano
2. How the Crisis of Socialism Became a Postsocialist Crisis
3. A State of Emergency: The Lived Experience of Postsocialist Decline
4. The Routinization of Crisis, or On the Permanence of Temporary
Conditions
5. Permanent Crisis, Durable Goods
6. Building Autonomy in Everyday Life
7. What Changes When Life Stands Still
8. Conclusion
Appendix 1. Methodology
Appendix 2. List of Respondents
Appendix 3. List of Interviewed Experts
Appendix 4. Discussion Topics
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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