Women without Men illuminates Russia's" quiet revolution" in family life through the lens of
single motherhood. Drawing on extensive ethnographic and interview data, Jennifer Utrata …

This survey discusses recent developments in the growing literature on the economic history
of Russia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Using novel data and modern empirical …

Relative to gender, race, and class, age relations are undertheorized. Yet age, like gender,
is routinely accomplished in daily life. Grandmothers and adult daughters simultaneously do …

In this article, the main groups of primary sources for studying the history of the Soviet family
in the twentieth century are observed. The data sets of population censuses are traditionally …

Social or public housing is an important component of the housing supply in most European
countries. Nowhere, however, has the notion of social housing been taken as far as in the …

(Im) politeness is usually discussed in context of an ongoing discourse situation. In this
article, I show that relational work is not limited to a single conversation: specifically, the …

After the fall of communism in Bulgaria and Russia, the form of underground communities
still remained in the collective consciousness, as people became even more secluded …

The article looks at published “average” family budget studies in the Khrushchev era
following the February 1956 Twentieth Party Congress and the Soviet government's pledge …

Family structure is considered a particularly important predictor of social and political
development; historical differences in family size and other family characteristics cast a long …

In the Soviet Union the state took responsibility for a large share of duties traditionally dealt
with by families. When the Soviet system collapsed, it was expected that budget-financed …