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Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Russia
Fran Markowitz
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Description for Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Russia
Paperback. An examination of Post-Soviet adolescents and how the change from a Communist state has influenced their aspirations for the future. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JFSP2; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
Anthropologist Fran Markowitz interviewed more than one hundred Russian teenagers to discover how adolescents have been coping with their country's seismic transitions. Her findings present a substantive challenge to near-axiomatic theories of human development that regard cultural stability as indispensable to the successful navigation of adolescence.
Markowitz's fieldwork leads to the surprising conclusion that the disruptions brought by glasnost, perestroika, and the fragmentation of the USSR exerted a greater impact on Western political hopes and on many of Russia's adults than on young people's perceptions of their lives. In their remarks on topics ranging from being Russian ... Read more
Anthropologist Fran Markowitz interviewed more than one hundred Russian teenagers to discover how adolescents have been coping with their country's seismic transitions. Her findings present a substantive challenge to near-axiomatic theories of human development that regard cultural stability as indispensable to the successful navigation of adolescence.
Markowitz's fieldwork leads to the surprising conclusion that the disruptions brought by glasnost, perestroika, and the fragmentation of the USSR exerted a greater impact on Western political hopes and on many of Russia's adults than on young people's perceptions of their lives. In their remarks on topics ranging from being Russian ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252068645
SKU
V9780252068645
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Reviews for Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Russia
"A fine ethnography, and one whose reach extends far beyond a study of adolescents in post-Soviet Russia. Anyone interested in societies in transition, identity, or looking for an example of solid ethnography would be well rewarded for the time spent with this book." Christopher Kaplonski, American Anthropologist "Moving well beyond sensational accounts of Russia's 'lost youth,' Markowitz gives us a ... Read more