Rethinking class in Russia - Salmenniemi, Suvi (Ashgate Pub., 2012)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Acknowledgements -- Introduction rethinking class in Russia / Suvi Salmenniemi -- Class analysis in the USSR and contemporary Russia / Harri Melin & Suvi Salmenniemi -- Class in public discourses -- Business for pleasure : elite women in the Russian popular media / Saara Ratilainen -- Post-soviet khoziain : class, self and morality in Russian self-help literature / Suvi Salmenniemi -- Doing class in social welfare discourses : "unfortunate families" in Russia / Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova & Pavel Romanov -- Political parties and the construction of social class in Russia / Sirke Mäkinen -- Classed practices -- Making and managing class : employment of paid domestic workers in Russia / Anna Rotkirch, Olga Tkach & Elena Zdravomyslova -- "We are not rich enough to buy cheap things" : clothing consumption of the St. Petersburg middle class / Olga Gurova -- Women's use of legal advice and claims in Russia : the impact of gender and class / Vikki Turbine -- Living class -- Wealth brings health? : class, body and health in Russia / Marja Rytkönen & Ilkka Pietilä -- Class differences and social mobility among the college-educated young people in Russia / Elena Trubina -- Re-inventing themselves : gender, employment, and subjective well-being amongst working-class young Russians / Charles Walker -- The excluded class : Russia's forgotten middle-aged men / John Round -- Afterword thinking and rethinking class / Steph Lawler -- Index