{"product_id":"everyday-life-in-russia-past-and-present-hardback-9780253012456","title":"Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present (Hardback) 9780253012456","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEveryday Life in Russia Past and Present\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChoi Chatterjee (Edited by), David L. Ransel (Edited by), Mary Cavender (Edited by), Karen Petrone (Edited by), David L. Ransel (Contributions by), Deborah A. Field (Contributions by), Natalia L. Pushkareva (Contributions by), Peter C. Pozefsky (Contributions by), Ilya Utekhin (Contributions by), Susan Reid (Contributions by), Steven E. Harris (Contributions by), Olga Shevchenko (Contributions by), Benjamin M. Sutcliffe (Contributions by), Douglas Rogers (Contributions by), Serguei Oushakine (Contributions by), Choi Chatterjee (Contributions by), Sheila Fitzpatrick (Contributions by), Elizabeth Skomp (Contributions by), Elizabeth McGuire (Contributions by), Mary Cavender (Contributions by), Karen Petrone (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253012456\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 January 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e448 pages, 12 b\u0026amp;w illus. - 12 Illustrations, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.748 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn engaging look at a vibrant area of research. . . . Highly recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice) \u003cp\u003e[T]his book is a must-read for any scholar engaging with Russian culture. It explores many unfamiliar facets of everyday Russia and reveals new, unexpected angles of familiar topics.\u003c\/p\u003e (The Russian Review) \u003cp\u003eEveryday Life in Russia Past and Present . . . offers readers a richly theoretical and empirical consideration of the 'state of play' of everyday life as it applies to the interdisciplinary study of Russia. \u003c\/p\u003e (Slavic Review) \u003cp\u003eEveryday Life in Russia Past and Present is an excellent and ambitious edited collection . . . . The authors . . . are some of the best in theeld and their contributions challenge and expand our understanding of the concept of everyday life as lived in prerevolutionary, Soviet, and contemporary Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e (Canadian Slavonic Papers)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these original essays on long-term patterns of everyday life in prerevolutionary, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Approaches to Everyday Life\u003cbr\u003e1. The Scholarship of Everyday Life \/ David L. Ransel\u003cbr\u003e2. Provincial Nobles, Elite History and the Imagination of Everyday Life \/ Mary Cavender\u003cbr\u003e3. Resisting Resistance: Everyday life, Practical Competence and Neoliberal Rhetoric in Postsocialist Russia \/ Olga Shevchenko,\u003cbr\u003e4. The Oil Company and the Crafts Fair: From Povsednevnost' to Byt in Postsocialist Russia \/ Douglas Rogers\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Public Identities and Public Space\u003cbr\u003e5. 'We don't talk about ourselves': Women Academics Recall Their Path to Success \/ Natalia Pushkareva\u003cbr\u003e6. The Literature of Everyday Life and Popular Representations of Motherhood in Brezhnev's Time \/ Elizabeth Skomp\u003cbr\u003e7. 'They Are Taking That Air From Us': Sale of Commonly Enjoyed Properties to Private Developers \/ David L. Ransel\u003cbr\u003ePart III. Living Space and Personal Choice \u003cbr\u003e8. Everyday Life and the Problem of Conceptualizing Public and Private during the Khrushchev Era \/ Deborah A. Field\u003cbr\u003e9. Soviet Mass Housing and the Communist Way of Life \/ Steven E. Harris\u003cbr\u003e10. Everyday Aesthetics in the Khrushchev-Era Standard Apartment \/ Susan E. Reid\u003cbr\u003e11. The Soviet Communal Apartment Lives On, Adapting to Post-Soviet Conditions \/ Ilya Utekhin\u003cbr\u003ePart IV. Myth, Memory, and the History of Everyday Life \u003cbr\u003e12. Everyday Stalinism in Transition-Era Film \/ Peter C. Pozefsky\u003cbr\u003e13. Totality Decomposed: Objectalizing Late Socialism in Post-Soviet Biochronicles \/ Serguei Oushakine\u003cbr\u003e14. Everyday Life and the Ties that Bind in Liudmila Ulitskaia's Medea and Her Children \/ Benjamin Sutcliffe\u003cbr\u003ePart V. Coming Home: Transnational Connections \u003cbr\u003e15. Sino-Soviet Every Day: Chinese Revolutionaries in Moscow Military Schools, 1927-1930 \/ Elizabeth McGuire\u003cbr\u003e16. Coming Home Soviet Style: The Reintegration of Afghan Veterans into Soviet Everyday Life \/ Karen Petrone\u003cbr\u003e17. Everyday Life in Transnational Perspective: Consumption, Consumerism, and Party Favors, 1917-1939 \/ Choi Chatterjee\u003cbr\u003eAfterword \/ Sheila Fitzpatrick\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523889656088,"sku":"9780253012456","price":56.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/everyday-life-in-russia-past-and-present-hardback-9780253012456","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}