Poverty and Inequality in Contemporary Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poverty and Inequality in Contemporary Russia write by Daria Ukhova. This book was released on . Poverty and Inequality in Contemporary Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Politics of Poverty in Contemporary Russia
The Politics of Poverty in Contemporary Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Poverty in Contemporary Russia write by Ann-Mari Sätre. This book was released on 2019-01-15. The Politics of Poverty in Contemporary Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides an overview of poverty and well-being in Russia. Increasing poverty rates during the 1990s were followed by greater attention to social policies in the 2000s and increased efforts to engage people in socially oriented NGOs and ‘encourage’ them to contribute to the fulfillment of social aims. What impact did these developments have on the prevalence of poverty in contemporary Russian society? Tracing continuities from the Soviet system alongside recent developments such as the falling price of oil, economic sanctions, and changes in directions of social policy, this book explores the impact of poverty, inequality and social programmes. The author examines the agency of people living in poverty and those engaged in social policy, using official statistics, survey data and interviews from four Russian regions to explain the reasons and consequences of poverty and people’s attempts to get out of it. The approach is based on institutional theory, complemented by Amartya Sen’s capability approach highlighting the importance of agency and an institutional framework as a means for change. A timely book that will be of interest to students of contemporary Russian politics as well as those engaged in social policy issues.
Rural Inequality in Divided Russia
Rural Inequality in Divided Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rural Inequality in Divided Russia write by Stephen Wegren. This book was released on 2013-07-24. Rural Inequality in Divided Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 contemporary rural Russia.
The Politics of Inequality in Russia
The Politics of Inequality in Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Inequality in Russia write by Thomas F. Remington. This book was released on 2011. The Politics of Inequality in Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book investigates the relationship between the character of political regimes in Russia's subnational regions and the structure of earnings and income. Based on extensive data from Russian official sources and surveys conducted by the World Bank, the book shows that income inequality is higher in more pluralistic regions. It argues that the relationship between firms and government differs between more democratic and more authoritarian regional regimes. In more democratic regions, business firms and government have more cooperative relations, restraining the power of government over business and encouraging business to invest more, pay more, and report more of their wages. Average wages are higher in more democratic regions and poverty is lower, but wage and income inequality are also higher. The book argues that the rising inequality in postcommunist Russia reflects the inability of a weak state to carry out a redistributive social policy"--
Rethinking Class in Russia
Rethinking Class in Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Class in Russia write by Suvi Salmenniemi. This book was released on 2016-04-08. Rethinking Class in Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social differentiation, poverty and the emergence of the newly rich occasioned by the collapse of the Soviet Union have seldom been analysed from a class perspective. Rethinking Class in Russia addresses this absence by exploring the manner in which class positions are constructed and negotiated in the new Russia. Bringing an ethnographic and cultural studies approach to the topic, this book demonstrates that class is a central axis along which power and inequality are organized in Russia, revealing how symbolic, cultural and emotional dimensions are deeply intertwined with economic and material inequalities. Thematically arranged and presenting the latest empirical research, this interdisciplinary volume brings together work from both Western and Russian scholars on a range of spheres and practices, including popular culture, politics, social policy, consumption, education, work, family and everyday life. By engaging with discussions in new class analysis and by highlighting how the logic of global neoliberal capitalism is appropriated and negotiated vis-à-vis the Soviet hierarchies of value and worth, this book offers a multifaceted and carefully contextualized picture of class relations and identities in contemporary Russia and makes a contribution to the theorisation of class and inequality in a post-Cold War era. As such it will appeal to those with interests in sociology, anthropology, geography, political science, gender studies, Russian and Eastern European studies, and media and cultural studies.
