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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459533003321

Autore

Zigon Jarrett

Titolo

Making the new post-Soviet person [[electronic resource] ] : moral experience in contemporary Moscow / / by Jarrett Zigon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010

ISBN

1-282-78692-X

9786612786921

90-04-19349-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Russian history and culture, , 1877-7791 ; ; v. 5

Disciplina

303.3/7209473109049

Soggetti

Post-communism - Social aspects - Russia (Federation) - Moscow

Ethics - Russia (Federation) - Moscow

Individuality - Russia (Federation) - Moscow

Social values - Russia (Federation) - Moscow

Social change - Russia (Federation) - Moscow

Interviews - Russia (Federation) - Moscow

Electronic books.

Moscow (Russia) Social conditions

Moscow (Russia) Moral conditions

Moscow (Russia) Biography

Russia (Federation) Social conditions 1991-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Backgrounds -- A window within the window -- Post-Soviet social and personal transformations -- Articulating morality in contemporary Russia -- The anthropology of moralities -- Theory of moral   breakdown -- Life history and experience -- Narratives -- Locating my interlocutors -- Olya -- Larisa -- Olya and Larisa -- Dima -- Anna -- Aleksandra Vladimirovna -- Some conclusions -- Morality and personhood -- Range of possibilities -- Morality and new post-Soviet personhood.

Sommario/riassunto

The post-Soviet years have widely been interpreted as a period of intense moral questioning, debate, and struggle. Despite this claim few



studies have revealed how this moral experience has been lived and articulated by Russians themselves. This book provides an intimate portrait of how five Muscovites have experienced the post-Soviet years as a period of intense refashioning of their moral personhood, and how this process can only be understood at the intersection of their unique personal experiences, a shared Russian/Soviet history, and increasingly influential global discourses and practices. The result is a new approach to understanding everyday moral experience and the processes by which new moral persons are cultivated.