Everyday Politics in Russia

From Resentment to Resistance

Professor Jeremy Morris (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-50931-3 (ISBN)

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A landmark insight into the everyday political lives of ordinary Russians and their attitudes towards the war in Ukraine, their government and their lives since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

What do Russians really want? Do they want authoritarianism and are they prepared to go along with a war of conquest and destruction? Or do they want something else?

A landmark contribution to the field, Morris is the only social researcher to have carried out fieldwork in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine, engaging with communities in Moscow, regional cities, as well as rural areas to bring perspectives on Russian everyday lives that are now entirely inaccessible to the West. Everyday Politics in Russia uses the lens of micropolitics, defined not as politics in miniature but instead as taking seriously the political content of people’s normal lives revealed in their practices, interactions and discussions. Based on decades-long interactions with people from a diverse cross-section of society in Russia – from security service officers to factory workers, from unemployed young men to citizen journalists and activists, this is the most comprehensive insight to date into the complexity of Russian attitudes toward war, their government and the post-1991 political trajectory.

Jeremy Morris is Professor in the Department of Global Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of Varieties of Russian Activism: State-Society Contestation in Everyday Life (2023), Everyday Postsocialism: Working-class Communities in the Russian Margins (2016), and co-editor of New Media in New Eurasia (2015); The Informal Postsocialist Economy: Embedded Practices and Livelihoods (2014), Identity and Nation Building in Everyday Post-Socialist Life (2017). His article entitled ‘Beyond Coping? Alternatives to Consumption within Russian Worker Networks’, in Ethnography, was shortlisted for the BBC’s ‘Thinking Allowed’ prize for ethnography in 2014.

List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on the Text

Introduction: Rethinking the Meaning of the Political in Russia

Part I - ABSENT PRESENCES
Chapter 1. War and Society Response: Defensive Consolidation
Chapter 2. Feeling for an Absent Presence: The Roots of Russian Ressentiment
Chapter 3. Absurd Inhabitations: Portraits of Suffering and Striving

PART II: LIINES OF CONTROL
Chapter 4. Capitalist Realism: Russia's Laboratories of Hopelessness?
Chapter 5. Incoherent State: On Co-Producing Governance from Below

PART III: LINES OF FLIGHT
Chapter 6. Nomads: An Intermezzo on Garages and Other Non-Places
Chapter 7. Craft as Politics: From Salvage Economies to Mending the World
Chapter 8. 'This Thing We Do': Wartime Entanglement of People in Politics
Chapter 9. Peopling the Everyday Politics of Post-Socialism

References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.03.2025
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 232 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-350-50931-0 / 1350509310
ISBN-13	978-1-350-50931-3 / 9781350509313
Zustand	Neuware