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Author Hass, Jeffrey

Title Rethinking the Post-Soviet Experience : Markets, Moral Economies and Cultural Contradictions of Post Socialist Russia
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (296 pages)
Series Euro-Asian Studies
Euro-Asian studies.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Rethinking the Political Economy of Post-Socialism; Post-Soviet scholarship, theory, and social-economic normality; Cultural contradictions of post-socialism; Culture and economy at work: Moral and market economies; 1 Culture and Post-Socialism: The Moral Economy of Market-Building; Dynamics of economic organization-and reorganization; Cultural contradictions and moral economies: Revisiting a concept; Part I: Voices from below: Moral and Market Economies at Play; 2 Moral versus Market Economies in the Post-Soviet Firm
The politics of enterprise reformMoral and market economies of the Soviet and post-Soviet enterprise; Exchange relations within enterprises: Moral and market economies clash; Limits of decentralization: Market realities and the moral economy of governance; 3 Moral and Market Economies Meet: Remaking Exchange; Unleashing autonomy: Cultural contradictions of learning post-Soviet exchange; The moral economy-or market economy?-of mafiia and bandity; Remaking the foundations of exchange; Part II: Rethinking Narratives of the Foundations of Capitalism
4 Contradictions of Post-Socialist Value: Moral Economy of MoneyCultural contradictions of post-Soviet money: Value and multiple currencies; Cultural contradictions of valuation: Moral and market economies of pricing; Cultural contradictions of post-Soviet capital; Cultural contradictions of value and remaking post-Soviet "worth"; 5 A Tsar is Born? A Moral Economy of the Post-Soviet State; Cultural contradictions and moral economies of the state; Reconstituting property, fields, and the state: Markets ascendant; Putin's moral economy of security
Conclusion: Cultural contradictions and moral economies of states and propertyConclusion: Rethinking the Post-Soviet Experience Twenty Years On; Rethinking the narrative: What is-was?-post-Socialism?; Cultural contradictions, moral economies, and lessons of post-Soviet change; A moral to the story?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary In this unique contribution to economic sociology, Jeffrey Hass examines the impact of culture, norms and political authority on Russia's post-socialist transition. The interactions and contradictions of moral economies and market relations are examined, exploring the often overlooked social dimension to market-building in Russia
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Subject Post-communism -- Russia (Federation)
Post-communism -- Former Soviet republics
Political economy -- Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)
Economic systems & structures -- Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)
Economic history -- Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)
Sociology -- Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)
Economics.
Economic history
Post-communism
Social conditions
SUBJECT Russia (Federation) -- Economic conditions -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004886
Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003621
Subject Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230358768
0230358764
1283361183
9781283361187