Rethinking the Post-Soviet Experience: Markets, Moral Economies, and Cultural Contradictions of Post-Socialist Russia

by J. Hass

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230284661
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/17/2012
Series:	Euro-Asian Studies Series
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	277
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

JEFFREY HASSAssociate Professor in sociology at the University of Richmond,Virginia, USA.He studies and teaches social change, political and economic sociology, post-socialism, culture, power andsocial theory in Russia and Europe. He has published several works on post-socialism and economic change and is currently examining norms and practices of wartime survival during the Blockade of Leningrad in World War II.

Table of Contents

Introduction Culture and Post-Socialism: The Moral Economy of Market Building PART I: VOICES FROM BELOW: MORAL AND MARKET ECONOMIES AT PLAY Moral versus Market Economies: Remaking the Post-Soviet Firm Moral and Market Economies Meet: Remaking Exchange PART II: RETHINKING NARRATIVES OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF CAPITALISM Contradictions of Post-Socialist Value: Moral Economy of Money A Tsar is Born? A Moral Economy of the Post-Soviet State Rethinking the Post-Soviet Experience Twenty Years On