Social Distinctions in Contemporary Russia: Waiting for the Middle-Class Society?

ISBN-13: 9780367465285 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 218 str.

Jouko Nikula; Mikhail Chernysh

Opis

This book analyses social change in Russia, and in particular the development of a middle class, one of the most important social and political projects of Putin’s administration.

Spis treści

Introduction  Chapter 1: Specifities of middle-class structuration in Russia.  Chapter 2: The structure of the Russian middle class  Chapter 3: The scale and dynamics of employment precarity in Russian society from 1998 to 2015.  Chapter 4: Social mobility: A theoretical and empirical perspective   Chapter 5: The role of the state and performance of the welfare state in Russian people’s opinions: What lessons can be learned with respect to the welfare regime and class situation?  Chapter 6: Working life in Russia  Chapter 7: Housing the middle class  Chapter 8: Poverty and confidence in Russia  Chapter 9: The structure of Russians’ values in the context of social modernization.  Chapter 10: Waiting for the Middle class society?