Surviving Post-socialism: Local Strategies And Regional Responses In Eastern Europe And The Former Soviet Union (routledge Studies Of Societies In Transition)

This book focuses on survival strategies developed at local levels in response to changing cultural, political and economic structures in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. An interdisciplinary approach is adopted as the contributors engage with questions of gender, ethnicity, migration, nationalism, employment and labour patterns and changing family structures.

this Wide Ranging Study Comprises Of Case Studies Drawn From Various Countries Of The Former Socialist World. Centering Around The Theme Of Survival Strategies Developed In Response To Changing Cultural, Political And Economic Structures, The Contributors Consider The Problems Implicit In These Changing Economies At All Levels, From Household Strategy To State And Policy Formation. Surviving Post-socialisms Covers A Huge Geographical Area And Explores Many Other Themes Such As: Gender; Ethnicity; Migration; Employment And Labour Patterns; Changing Family Structures; And Ideas Of Nationalism. By Emphasising Local Level Experience, Regional Difference And The Use Actors Make Of Local Knowledge In Developing Survival Strategies, This Study Argues That Local Level Research Is Essential To An Understanding Of The Transformation Process In The Post-socialist Countries.

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centering On The Theme Of Survival Strategies Developed In Response To Changing Cultural, Political, And Economic Structures, Contributors Consider A Broad Economic As Well As Geographic Area (from Household Strategy To State And Policy Formation), Exploring Such Themes As Gender, Ethnicity, Migration, Employment And Labor Patterns, Changing Family Structures, And Nationalism. By Emphasizing Local Experience, Regional Difference, And The Use Of Local Knowledge In Developing Survival Strategies, They Argue That Local-level Research Enhances Macro-level Analysis And Is Essential To An Understanding Of The Transformation Process. Annotation C. By Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Contents List of illustrations List of contributors Foreword • C.M. Hann Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: transitions to post-socialism and cultures of survival • Frances Pine and Sue Bridger 2 When ‘land’ becomes ‘territory’: land privatisation and ethnicity in rural Bulgaria • Deema Kaneff 3 The bullied farmer: social pressure as a survival strategy? • Myriam Hivon 4 Living in a subterranean landscape: identity politics in post-Soviet Khakassia • David G. Anderson 5 ‘We should build a statue to Ceaucescu here’: the trauma of de-collectivisation in two Romanian villages • Michael Stewart 6 Post-communist neighbours: relocating gender in a Greek-Albanian border community • Sarah Green 7 Dealing with fragmentation: the consequences of privatisation for rural women in central and southern Poland • Frances Pine 8 Gypsy self-governments in post-socialist Hungary • Martin Kovats 9 Divergent responses to land reform and agricultural restructuring in the Russian Federation • Louise Perrotta 10 Playing the co-operation game: strategies around international aid in post-socialist Russia • Marta Bruno 11 Survival strategies in an industrial town in east Ukraine • Michael Walker 12 Tackling the market: the experience of three Moscow women’s organisations • Sue Bridger Index Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this text focuses on survival strategies developed at local levels in response to changing cultural, political and economic structures in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union