3. Lifestyle and Creative Engagement with Rural Space in Northwest Russia
When colleagues in town asked me upon my return from yet another fieldwork trip to the village: “Nu, i kak tam liudi zhivut?” (So, how do people live there?), they usually met my enthusiastic reply that life in Chavan’ga was generally very good with a sceptical distrust. While acknowledging that det...
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Language: | English |
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Open Book Publishers
2020
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Online Access: | http://books.openedition.org/obp/11167 |
Summary: | When colleagues in town asked me upon my return from yet another fieldwork trip to the village: “Nu, i kak tam liudi zhivut?” (So, how do people live there?), they usually met my enthusiastic reply that life in Chavan’ga was generally very good with a sceptical distrust. While acknowledging that deterioration of the social and economic provision has occurred in many if not most rural parts of post-Soviet Russia, I offer an account of situations when people in Russia today make a deliberate ch. |
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