Uncertain Transition: Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World

The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to date. Looking at the everyday processes by which individuals and groups forge new lives, the authors challenge the idea that we can understand this transformation by the predictable models-whether capitalism, post-socialism, modernity, or postmodernity.

The collection brings together a wide-ranging group of authors from sociology, anthropology, and polit...