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1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series ; 47 |
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Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series ; 47.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and table; Preface; List of acronyms; Part I: Context; 1. Rural inequality in the Soviet period; The Soviet legacy; After Stalin; The Brezhnev period; The Gorbachev period; Conclusion; 2. Inequality in post-Soviet Russia; The theoretical underpinnings; Democracy and democratization; Social stability; The good society; Economic growth; Inequality in post-Soviet Russia; Stratification and public opinion; Concentration of wealth and new social structure; The rise and fall of mass poverty; The fall of mass poverty |
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Increase in regional inequalityConclusion; 3. Rural inequality and agrarian capitalism in post-Soviet Russia; Methodological issues; Change in opportunities through agrarian capitalism; Inequality in contemporary rural Russia; An increase in urban-rural inequality; An increase in rural income inequality; An increase in rural wealth inequality; Changes in sources of income; Rural social structure; Inequality and Russia's agrarian capitalism; Conclusion; 4. Rural poverty in post-Soviet Russia; The measurement of poverty; An overview of Russia's rural poverty; Income poverty; Wealth poverty |
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Why are Russia's poor so poor?Government policy; Structural factors and rural poverty; Behavioral factors and rural poverty; Conclusion; Part II: Factors affecting rural inequality; 5. Rural inequality and human and social capital; Approaches to human and social capital; Sociodemographic trends in rural Russia; Household labor; Household labor and income; Household labor and wealth; Social capital; Social capital and income; Social capital and household wealth; What is to be done?; Conclusion; 6. Rural inequality and profession; Profession-based inequality in perspective |
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Change in hierarchy of positionInter-profession differentiation: income and wealth; Distribution of income across profession; Intra-cohort stratification; Farm managers; Farm workers; Private farmers; Change in determinants of professional inequality; The question of class; Is there a rural bourgeoisie?; Is there a rural middle class?; Conclusion; 7. Rural inequality and gender; Work and rural women in the Soviet period; Gendered effects of market reform; Rural reform and the gender gap; Monetary income inequality; Income inequality across profession; Wealth inequality |
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Differing responses to non-agricultural employment opportunitiesConclusion; 8. Rural inequality and location; A brief literature review; The forgotten; Consequences of being forgotten; Black holes; Stratification in forested villages; The structure of household income and employment; Location and inequality within raions; Contrasting hypotheses; Household characteristics and the impact of village location; Conclusion; Part III: Consequences; 9. Inequality and Russia's future; Why Russia's inequality matters; Inequality and institutions; Inequality and peasant moral economy |
| Summary |
This book examines economic and political polarisation in post-Soviet Russia, and in particular analyses the development of rural inequality. It discusses how rural inequality has developed in post-Soviet Russia, and how it differs from the Soviet period, and goes on to look at the factors that affect rural stratification and inequality, using human and social capital, profession, gender, and village location as independent variables. The book uses survey data from rural households and fieldwork in Russia in order to highlight the multiplicity of divisions that act as fault lines in contemp |
| Notes |
The question of regime stability |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Equality -- Russia (Federation)
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Polarization (Social sciences) -- Russia (Federation)
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Equality
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Polarization (Social sciences)
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Rural conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Russia (Federation) -- Rural conditions -- Regional disparities
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Russia (Federation) -- Rural conditions
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| Subject |
Russia (Federation)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135018306 |
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1135018308 |
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