Everyday life in Russia past and present

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Introduction Part I. Approaches to Everyday Life 1. The Scholarship of Everyday Life / David L. Ransel 2. Provincial Nobles, Elite History and the Imagination of Everyday Life / Mary Cavender 3. Resisting Resistance: Everyday life, Practical Competence and Neoliberal Rhetoric in Postsocialist Russia / Olga Shevchenko, 4. The Oil Company and the Crafts Fair: From Povsednevnost' to Byt in Postsocialist Russia / Douglas Rogers Part II. Public Identities and Public Space 5. 'We don't talk about ourselves': Women Academics Recall Their Path to Success / Natalia Pushkareva 6. The Literature of Everyday Life and Popular Representations of Motherhood in Brezhnev's Time / Elizabeth Skomp 7. 'They Are Taking That Air From Us': Sale of Commonly Enjoyed Properties to Private Developers / David L. Ransel Part III. Living Space and Personal Choice 8. Everyday Life and the Problem of Conceptualizing Public and Private during the Khrushchev Era / Deborah A. Field 9. Soviet Mass Housing and the Communist Way of Life / Steven E. Harris 10. Everyday Aesthetics in the Khrushchev-Era Standard Apartment / Susan E. Reid 11. The Soviet Communal Apartment Lives On, Adapting to Post-Soviet Conditions / Ilya Utekhin Part IV. Myth, Memory, and the History of Everyday Life 12. Everyday Stalinism in Transition-Era Film / Peter C. Pozefsky 13. Totality Decomposed: Objectalizing Late Socialism in Post-Soviet Biochronicles / Serguei Oushakine 14. Everyday Life and the Ties that Bind in Liudmila Ulitskaia's Medea and Her Children / Benjamin Sutcliffe Part V. Coming Home: Transnational Connections 15. Sino-Soviet Every Day: Chinese Revolutionaries in Moscow Military Schools, 1927-1930 / Elizabeth McGuire 16. Coming Home Soviet Style: The Reintegration of Afghan Veterans into Soviet Everyday Life / Karen Petrone 17. Everyday Life in Transnational Perspective: Consumption, Consumerism, and Party Favors, 1917-1939 / Choi Chatterjee Afterword / Sheila Fitzpatrick Bibliography