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Author Caldwell, Melissa L., 1969-

Title Not by bread alone : social support in the new Russia / Melissa L. Caldwell
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 242 pages) : illustrations
Contents Transnational soup -- Making do : everyday survival in a shortage society -- From hand to hand : informal networks -- The forest feeds us : organic exchange -- Strategic intimacy : communities of assistance -- The mythology of hunger -- Socialism revisited
Summary What Muscovites get in a soup kitchen run by the Christian Church of Moscow is something far more subtle and complex--if no less necessary and nourishing--than the food that feeds their hunger. In Not by Bread Alone, the first full-length ethnographic study of poverty and social welfare in the postsocialist world, Melissa L
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index
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Subject Soup kitchens -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow
Social networks -- Russia (Federation)
Food relief -- Russia (Federation)
Poor -- Russia (Federation)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Food relief
Poor
Social conditions
Social networks
Soup kitchens
SUBJECT Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003621
Subject Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation) -- Moscow
Form Electronic book
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