Rethinking the Post-Soviet Experience:

Markets, Moral Economies, and Cultural Contradictions of Post-Socialist Russia

Twenty years after the Soviet Union collapsed and the post-socialist experiment began, this book evaluates the experiences of market-building and the implications that this has had for social theory. Moving beyond the utilitarian assumptions that govern many other works, the author investigates the importance of culture in the post-socialist story, andthe interaction between social and economic change.

Combining scholarship in economics, politics and sociology, this volume examines key issues though the discourses of workers, managers, financial elites and state officials. In telling these stories, this book expands on previous analyses, proposing a new way of thinking about moral economy, and providing insights into the dynamics of economic change.

JEFFREY HASS Associate Professor in sociology at the University of Richmond, Virginia, USA. He studies and teaches social change, political and economic sociology, 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.

Table of Contents

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

296 pages, Hardcover

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Rethinking the Post-Soviet Experience:

Markets, Moral Economies, and Cultural Contradictions of Post-Socialist Russia