During the Soviet era, blat—the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services
in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures—was necessary to compensate for …

The Moralist International analyzes the role of the Russian Orthodox Church and the
Russian state in the global culture wars over gender and reproductive rights and religious …

In Housing the New Russia, Jane R. Zavisca examines Russia's attempts to transition from a
socialist vision of housing, in which the government promised a separate, state-owned …

Libman and Obydenkova reveal how legacies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
(CPSU) have survived in the politics, economic development, culture, and society of post …

WHY does trust in new democracies deserve a separate chapter in this volume? The answer
to this question relates not to trust and its dimensions per se but to a specific relationship …

The book offers a theoretical discussion of the feudal model and a preliminary application of
the model to post-Soviet Russia. In addition to a review of the feudal model as an ideal type …

This paper examines the culture of gift-giving in contemporary urban Russia, illuminating in
the process broader post-socialist deliberations about social identity and personal worth …

Shlapentokh undertakes a dispassionate analysis of the ordinary functioning of the Soviet
system from Stalin's death through the Soviet collapse and Russia's first post-communist …

Childhood held a special place in Soviet society: seen as the key to a better future, children
were imagined as the only privileged class. Therefore, the rapid emergence in post-Soviet …

Egalitarianism is one of the key elements of the communist ideology, yet some of the former
communist countries are among the most unequal in the world in terms of income …