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Author Bridger, Sue

Title Surviving Post-Socialism : Local Strategies and Regional Responses in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (245 pages)
Series Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition
Routledge studies of societies in transition.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: transitions to post-socialism and cultures of survival; 2 When 'land' becomes 'territory': land privatisation and ethnicity in rural Bulgaria; 3 The bullied farmer: social pressure as a survival strategy?; 4 Living in a subterranean landscape: identity politics in post-Soviet Khakassia; 5 'We should build a statue to Ceaucescu here': the trauma of de-collectivisation in two Romanian villages
6 Post-communist neighbours: relocating gender in a Greek Albanian border community7 Dealing with fragmentation: the consequences of privatisation for rural women in central and southern Poland; 8 Gypsy self-governments in post-socialist Hungary; 9 Divergent responses to land reform and agricultural restructuring in the Russian Federation; 10 Playing the co-operation game: strategies around international aid in post-socialist Russia; 11 Survival strategies in an industrial town in east Ukraine; 12 Tackling the market: the experience of three Moscow women's organisations; Index
Summary 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
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Form Electronic book
Author Pine, Frances
ISBN 9781135107086
1135107084