[aaus-list] Re: This may be of interest: New book: Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow

[M T Znayenko]

> 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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Reed College
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