Crisis and the everyday in postsocialist Moscow

In this ethnography of postsocialist Moscow in the late 1990s, Olga
Shevchenko draws on interviews with a cross-section of Muscovites to describe how
people made sense of the acute uncertainties of everyday life, and the new
identities and competencies that emerged in response to these challenges. Ranging
from consumption to daily rhetoric, and from urban geography to health care, this
study illuminates the relationship between crisis and normality and adds a new
dimension to the debates about postsocialist culture and politics.