Rethinking class in Russia /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Salmenniemi, Suvi, 1975-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2012.
Subjects:	Social classes > Russia (Federation) > 21st century. Social stratification > Russia (Federation) Women > Russia (Federation) > Social conditions. Russia (Federation) > Social life and customs > 21st century. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Introduction rethinking class in Russia / Suvi Salmenniemi
Class analysis in the USSR and contemporary Russia / Harri Melin & Suvi Salmenniemi
Class in public discourses
Business for pleasure : elite women in the Russian popular media / Saara Ratilainen
Post-soviet khoziain : class, self and morality in Russian self-help literature / Suvi Salmenniemi
Doing class in social welfare discourses : "unfortunate families" in Russia / Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova & Pavel Romanov
Political parties and the construction of social class in Russia / Sirke Mäkinen
Classed practices
Making and managing class : employment of paid domestic workers in Russia / Anna Rotkirch, Olga Tkach & Elena Zdravomyslova
"We are not rich enough to buy cheap things" : clothing consumption of the St. Petersburg middle class / Olga Gurova
Women's use of legal advice and claims in Russia : the impact of gender and class / Vikki Turbine
Living class
Wealth brings health? : class, body and health in Russia / Marja Rytkönen & Ilkka Pietilä
Class differences and social mobility among the college-educated young people in Russia / Elena Trubina
Re-inventing themselves : gender, employment, and subjective well-being amongst working-class young Russians / Charles Walker
The excluded class : Russia's forgotten middle-aged men / John Round
Afterword thinking and rethinking class / Steph Lawler
Index.