Overview
- Presents the most complete empirical analysis of provincial local societies in Russia
- Includes a comprehensive description of the territorial, economic and social structure of local societies
- Explains the structural stability of local societies and the peculiarities of transformational processes
Part of the book series: Societies and Political Orders in Transition (SOCPOT)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
Keywords
- Russian society
- Local society
- Economic structure
- Transformation studies
- Local territorial organization
- Society and community
- Rural society
- Local economy
- Crafts
- Wandering workers
- Typology of local societies
- Provincial authority
- Local self-government
- Post-soviet transformation
- Isolated communities
- Labor migration
- Spatial isolation
- Garage economy
About this book
This book presents a unique analysis of modern Russian provincial society. Based on detailed empirical evidence, it develops a theoretical model of Russian provincial society in the late 20th century and the early 21st century. The book explains how under the conditions of catastrophic changes, Russian provincial societies have undergone a structural transformation. It further sheds light on the transformation of the economic behavior of the population and households with regard to economic practices, crafts, and revived archaic forms of labor behavior.
Summarizing the extensive empirical evidence, the book puts forward the concept of complementarity of two social structures at the local level: a ground "soft communal" structure and a "tightening with an iron hoop" estate state structure. Next, it discusses the stability and resistance of the local social structure to external political disturbances. Based on the presented analysis, the book introduces several independent criteria on the basis of which it establishes the typology of all empirically observed forms of societies. Subsequently, the book identifies six main types of Russian provincial societies. It explains how depending on the type, the different societies either adapt to political and economic changes in different ways, stay unchanged or transform their structure.
The book will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology, interested in a better understanding of transformation studies, population and household economics, provincial societies, as well as Russian societal structures.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Russian Provincial Society
Book Subtitle: An Empirical Analysis
Authors: Juri Plusnin
Series Title: Societies and Political Orders in Transition
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97829-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97828-0Published: 22 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97831-0Published: 23 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-97829-7Published: 21 June 2022
Series ISSN: 2511-2201
Series E-ISSN: 2511-221X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 367
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Sociology, Anthropology, Labor Economics, European Politics, Development Economics, Public Administration