Attitudes, Poverty and Agency in Russia and Ukraine
One of the main ideas behind this book was to trace continuities from the Soviet time to post-Soviet Russia. There are many similarities between Russia and Ukraine, indicating such a continuation. Russia and Ukraine had a lot in common in terms of culture, language and history, partly because of their common origin. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, however, the two independent countries chose different routes of development. This makes it possible to distinguish between the effects of politics/reforms on the one hand and the impacts from the Soviet system on the other. After some more or less chaotic development paths in the 1990s, showing clear differences between the two countries, and before the contemporary conflict broke out in Eastern Ukraine (2013), they had once again more similarities in terms of political leadership and policies in general.
The chapters in this book focus on Ukraine and on two regions in Russia: Nizhny Novgorod and Archangelsk. Contributors look at attitudes towards poverty and poor people; strategies of the poor; and policies against poverty.
This book was published as a special issue of the Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe.
Ann-Mari Stre is Associate Professor in Economics and a senior lecturer/researcher at the Centre of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. She specializes in the structure and performance of the Soviet/Russian economy. Her current research focuses on poverty, local development and womens work in Russia.
Ildik Asztalos Morell is an Associate Professor in Sociology at Mlardalen University, Sweden. She is also a senior research fellow at the Centre of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research interests include gender and economic transition during and after state socialism, welfare systems and rural transition, with a focus on multiple marginalities in Hungary.
Attitudes, Poverty and Agency in Russia and Ukraine
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Contents
Ann-Mari Stre
Alla Varyzgina and Rebecca Kay
Anastasiya Ryabchuk
Ann-Mari Stre, Alexander Soldatkin and Alla Varyzgina
Ildik Asztalos Morell and Irina Tiurikova
Tetiana Kostiuchenko and Hanna Sderbaum
Ann-Mari Stre
Nina Ivashinenko
The chapters in this book were originally published in Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, volume 22, issue 3 (December 2014). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Attitudes, Poverty and Agency in Russia and Ukraine
Ann-Mari Stre
Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, volume 22, issue 3 (December 2014) pp. 266268
Chapter 2
Perceptions of Poverty in Small-town Russia
Alla Varyzgina and Rebecca Kay
Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, volume 22, issue 3 (December 2014) pp. 269287
Chapter 3
Homelessness in Ukraine: Structural Causes and Moral Evaluation
Anastasiya Ryabchuk
Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, volume 22, issue 3 (December 2014) pp. 288306
Chapter 4
Families Ways of Coping with Poverty in Small-town Russia
Ann-Mari Stre, Alexander Soldatkin and Alla Varyzgina
Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, volume 22, issue 3 (December 2014) pp. 307328
Chapter 5
Single Men, Single Stories: Alternative Paths in the Transition from the Late Soviet to the Neoliberal Market Economy in the Light of Life Stories
Ildik Asztalos Morell and Irina Tiurikova
Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, volume 22, issue 3 (December 2014) pp. 329351
Chapter 6
The Ukrainian Power Elite and Poverty Reductive Efforts: An Inquiry into a Selection of Elite Members Legislative and Philanthropic Initiatives
Tetiana Kostiuchenko and Hanna Sderbaum
Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, volume 22, issue 3 (December 2014) pp. 352378
Chapter 7
Policies Against Poverty in RussiaA Female Responsibility
Ann-Mari Stre
Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, volume 22, issue 3 (December 2014) pp. 379402
Chapter 8
Searching for a New Approach to Face Poverty on the Local Level, a Case Study in a Small Russian Town
Nina Ivashinenko
Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, volume 22, issue 3 (December 2014) pp. 403419
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Ildik Asztalos Morell is Associate Professor of Sociology at Mlardalen University, Sweden, as well as senior research fellow at the Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research interests cover gender studies, the study of rural transition including agrarian production forms and processes of social marginalization. Her main research focus is on Hungary during and after state socialism. Her major publication is Emancipations Dead-End Roads: Studies in the formation and development of the Hungarian model for gender and agriculture 19561988 (1999). She has been co-editor of several comparative volumes, such as Gender Regimes, Citizen Participation and Agricultural Restructuring (2008); Gender Transitions in Russia and Eastern Europe (2005); and Bilden av ingenjren
