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Author Caldwell, Melissa L., 1969-

Title Not by bread alone : social support in the new Russia / Melissa L. Caldwell.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 242 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index.
Contents Transnational soup -- Making do : everyday survival in a shortage society -- From hand to hand : informal networks -- The forest feeds us : organic exchange -- Strategic intimacy : communities of assistance -- The mythology of hunger -- Socialism revisited.
Summary What Muscovites get in a soup kitchen run by the Christian Church of Moscow is something far more subtle and complex--if no less necessary and nourishing--than the food that feeds their hunger. In Not by Bread Alone, the first full-length ethnographic study of poverty and social welfare in the postsocialist world, Melissa L.
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Subject Soup kitchens -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow.
Soup kitchens.
Russia (Federation) -- Moscow.
Social networks -- Russia (Federation)
Social networks.
Russia (Federation)
Food relief -- Russia (Federation)
Food relief.
Poor -- Russia (Federation)
Poor.
Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991-
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1991-
Since 1991
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Caldwell, Melissa L., 1969- Not by bread alone. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004 0520238753 0520238761 (DLC) 2003014268 (OCoLC)52495567
ISBN 9780520937253 (electronic book)
0520937252 (electronic book)
1417508264 (electronic book)
9781417508266 (electronic book)
0520238753 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520238756 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520238761 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780520238763 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1597347787
9781597347785