1st Edition

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

Edited By Sue Bridger, Frances Pine Copyright 1998
    244 Pages
    by Routledge

    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book focuses on survival strategies developed at local levels in response to changing cultural, political and economic structures in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. An interdisciplinary approach is adopted as the contributors engage with questions of gender, ethnicity, migration, nationalism, employment and labour patterns and changing family structures.

    Chapter 1 Introduction: transitions to post-socialism and cultures of survival, Frances Pine, Sue Bridger; Chapter 2 When ‘land’ becomes ‘territory’, Deema Kaneff; Chapter 3 The bullied farmer, Myriam Hivon; Chapter 4 Living in a subterranean landscape, David G. Anderson; Chapter 5 ‘We should build a statue to Ceaucescu here’, Michael Stewart; Chapter 6 Post-communist neighbours, Sarah Green; Chapter 7 Dealing with fragmentation, Frances Pine; Chapter 8 Gypsy self-governments in post-socialist Hungary, Martin Kovats; Chapter 9 Divergent responses to land reform and agricultural restructuring in the Russian Federation, Louise Perrotta; Chapter 10 Playing the co-operation game, Marta Bruno; Chapter 11 Survival strategies in an industrial town in east Ukraine, Michael Walker; Chapter 12 Tackling the market, Sue Bridger;

    Biography

    Sue Bridger, Frances Pine