Surviving Post-Socialism: Local Strategies and Regional Responses in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

by Bridger,Sue; Bridger,Sue

• ISBN13: 9780415158503
• ISBN10: 0415158508
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-11-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This wide ranging study comprises of case studies drawn from various countries of the former socialist world. Centering around the theme of survival strategies developed in response to changing cultural, political and economic structures, the contributors consider the problems implicit in these changing economies at all levels, from household strategy to state and policy formation. Surviving Post-Socialisms covers a huge geographical area and explores many other themes such as: gender; ethnicity; migration; employment and labour patterns; changing family structures; and ideas of nationalism. By emphasising local level experience, regional difference and the use actors make of local knowledge in developing survival strategies, this study argues that local level research is essential to an understanding of the transformation process in the post-socialist countries.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii	(1)
List of contributors	viii	(2)
Foreword	x	(5)
Acknowledgements	xv
1 Introduction: transitions to post-socialism and cultures of survival	1	(15)
Frances Pine
Sue Bridger
2 When `land' becomes `territory': land privatisation and ethnicity in rural Bulgaria	16	(17)
Deema Kaneff
3 The bullied farmer: social pressure as a survival strategy?	33	(19)
Myriam Hivon
4 Living in a subterranean landscape: identity politics in post-Soviet Khakassia	52	(14)
David G. Anderson
5 `We should build a statue to Ceaucescu here': the trauma of de-collectivisation in two Romanian villages	66	(14)
Michael Stewart
6 Post-communist neighbours: relocating gender in a Greek-Albanian border community	80	(26)
Sarah Green
7 Dealing with fragmentation: the consequences of privatisation for rural women in central and southern Poland	106	(18)
Frances Pine
8 Gypsy self-governments in post-socialist Hungary	124	(24)
Martin Kovats
9 Divergent responses to land reform and agricultural restructuring in the Russian Federation	148	(22)
Louise Perrotta
10 Playing the co-operation game: strategies around international aid in post-socialist Russia	170	(18)
Marta Bruno
11 Survival strategies in an industrial town in east Ukraine	188	(15)
Michael Walker
12 Tackling the market: the experience of three Moscow women's organisations	203	(16)
Sue Bridger
Index	219