Single Men, Single Stories

Alternative Paths in the Transition from the Late Soviet to the Neoliberal Market Economy in the Light of Life Stories

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12284977
AutoresIldiko Asztalos Morell (0000-0002-3442-187X, autor de correspondencia), Irina Tiurikova (0000-0002-5298-8212)
Año2014
Volumen22
Número3
Páginas329-351
Fecha de publicación2014-09-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDebatte Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0965-156X • E-ISSN: 1469-3712
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0965156x.2014.988495
OpenAlexW2057757701
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas17

This research investigates life strategies of physical worker Russian men, belonging to the generation of people who were the most active group in the late Soviet period, went through the collapse of USSR and the transformation to capitalism. The historical biographic perspective allows reproducing common social experiences which have formed this generation. The in-depth biographical interviews were conducted with six men of age 46–63, single, with officially low income, who started their working lives in the public sector. The research shows the diversity of men’s alternative life strategies to adjust to the neoliberal economy established after the collapse of the USSR. The paper explores the biographies as representations of diverse forms of masculinities formed along gender, age, social position and marital status-based marginalization processes emerging in the transition context

Capitalism · Context (archaeology · Diversity (politics · Economics · Economy · Neoliberalism (international relations · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Position (finance · Sociology · Transition (genetics · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · History · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics