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

ISBN-13: 9781032336343 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 232 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?

O autorze

Jouko Nikula is Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Arts, Aleksanteri Institute, the Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Helsinki.

Mikhail Chernysh is First Deputy Director of the Federal Centre of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.