Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics

摘要: The Soviet Union created a unique form of urban modernity, developing institutions social provisioning for hundreds millions people in small and medium-sized industrial cities spread across vast territory. After the collapse socialism these were profoundly shaken--casualties, eyes many observers, market-oriented reforms associated with neoliberalism Washington Consensus. In Post-Soviet Social, Stephen Collier examines reform Russia beyond He turns attention from noisy battles over stabilization privatization during 1990s to subsequent that grapple mundane details pipes, wires, bureaucratic routines, budgetary formulas made up state. Drawing on Michel Foucault's lectures late 1970s, Social uses Russian case examine as central political rationality contemporary societies. book's basic finding--that neoliberal provide justification redistribution welfare, may work preserve norms forms modernity--lays groundwork critical revision conventional understandings topics.