Rethinking the post-Soviet experience: markets, moral economies, and cultural contradictions of post-socialist Russia

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. JEFFREY HASS Associate Professor in sociology at the University of Richmond, Virginia, USA. He studies and teaches social change, political and economicsociology, post-socialism, culture, power and social 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. INDICE: 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

• ISBN: 978-0-230-28466-1
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 264
• Fecha Publicación: 09/12/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés