 | The Unmaking of Soviet Life: Everyday Economies after Socialism Subjects: Russia (Federation) -- Economic conditions -- 1991; Post-communist -- Russia (Federation); Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991; Mongolia -- Economic conditions; Post-communism -- Mongolia -- Social conditions; In order to understand today's Russia and former Soviet republics, it is vital to consider their socialist past. Caroline Humphrey, one of anthropology's most highly regarded thinkers on a number of topics including consumption, identity, and ritual... Caroline Humphrey is Professor of Asian Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, author of several books, and winner of the J. I. Staley Prize for her landmark book The Karl Marx Collective: Economy and Society in a Siberian Collective Farm . |
