Housing the New Russia /

Housing the New Russia / / Jane R. Zavisca.

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In Housing the New Russia, Jane R. Zavisca examines Russia's attempts to transition from a socialist vision of housing, in which the government promised a separate, state-owned apartment for every family, to a market-based and mortgage-dependent model of home ownership. In 1992, the post-Soviet...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Zavisca, Jane R.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 13 halftones, 11 tables, 9 charts/graphs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Translation and Russian Names
  • Introduction: A Painful Question
  • Part I: The Development of the Post-Soviet Housing Regime
  • 1. The Soviet Promise: A Separate Apartment for Every Family
  • 2. Transplant Failure: The American Housing Model in Russia
  • 3. Maternity Capitalism: Grafting Pronatalism onto Housing Policy
  • 4. Property without Markets: Who Got What as Markets Failed
  • Part II: The Meaning of Housing in the New Russia
  • 5. Disappointed Dreams: Distributive Injustice in the New Housing Order
  • 6. Mobility Strategies: Searching for the Separate Apartment
  • 7. Rooms of Their Own: How Housing Affects Family Size
  • 8. Children Are Not Capital: Ambivalence about Pronatalist Housing Policies
  • 9. To Owe Is Not to Own: Why Russians Reject Mortgages
  • Conclusion A Market That Could Not Emerge
  • Appendix: Characteristics of Interviewees Cited in Text
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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