Rural Inequality in Divided Russia (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series) - Hardcover

Wegren, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415825873 ISBN 13: 9780415825870

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

This book examines economic and political polarisation in post-Soviet Russia, and in particular analyses the development of rural inequality. It discusses how rural inequality has developed in post-Soviet Russia, and how it differs from the Soviet period, and goes on to look at the factors that affect rural stratification and inequality, using human and social capital, profession, gender, and village location as independent variables. The book uses survey data from rural households and fieldwork in Russia in order to highlight the multiplicity of divisions that act as fault lines in contemporary rural Russia.

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This book looks at the economic and political polarisation in post-Soviet Russia, and in particular analyses the development of rural inequality. It discusses how rural inequality has developed in post-Soviet Russia, and how it differs from the Soviet period, and goes on to look at the factors that affect rural stratification and inequality, using human and social capital, profession, gender, and village location as independent variables. The book uses survey data from rural households and fieldwork in Russia in order to highlight the multiplicity of divisions that act as fault lines in present-day Russia and cause the rural society to be left behind in places.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415825873
• ISBN 13: 9780415825870
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288