Privatization in Moscow

Bater, James H.

doi:10.2307/215331

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“…Perhaps there will even be somewhat of a reversal of the inner-and outer-city patterns in the case of Moscow, since inner areas there have often been among the more prestigious. 26 Hopefully, nationality rayon data will be published regularly for Moscow in the near future and eventually be published for other former 719 Downloaded by [The University of Manchester Library] at 06:30 14 October 2014…”

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Nationality Population Distribution, Redistribution and Degree of Separation in Moscow, 1979–1989

Rowland

1998

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Despite the fact that the former Soviet Union was perhaps the most multinational state in the world, until recently data were not available to undertake a systematic investigation of patterns of nationality population, distribution, redistribution and segregation within Soviet cities. However, nationality data were recently published for the 32 rayons of Moscow for the last two census years of 1979 and 1989.

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Nationality Population Distribution, Redistribution and Degree of Separation in Moscow, 1979–1989

Rowland

1998

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“…Cheap housing was something the Soviet regime boasted about, and low rents were used as testimony to the achievements of socialism (Andrusz, 1990: 565). Indeed, it has been generally concluded that housing was far less stratified than was generally the case in the west, even if income and privilege played a far greater role than the Soviet leaders would ever have liked to admit (see, Bater, 1994;Kulu, 2003;Morton, 1980;Ruoppila, 2004;Smith, 1996).…”

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“…In general, housing as part and parcel of everyday life has been a largely neglected topic, with some notable exceptions such as the magnificent studies of communal apartments by Boym (1996), Gerasimova (1998; and Utekhin (2001), Paadam's (2003) interesting study of homeowners and their housing histories in Soviet-era and post-Soviet Estonia or Rotkirch's (2000) fascinating study, which details sexuality but is also illuminating reading for anyone interested in housing. The bulk of research on housing centres on privatization and its problems (Alexandrova, Hamilton, Kuznetsova, 2004;Bater, 1994;Cook, 2002;Kosareva, Puzanov, Tikhomirova, 1996;Lee, Petrova, Shapiro, Struyk, 1998;Renaud, 1995aRenaud, , 1995bStruyk, 1996;Struyk, Puzanov, Kolodeznikova, 2001, UNECE 2004 and new forms of social, economic and/or residential stratification (Andrusz, Harloe, Szelenyi, 1996;Buckley, Gurenko 1997;Borén, 2003;Gdaniec, 2001;Kulu, 2003;Lee, Struyk, 1996;Lehmann, Ruble, 2002;Ruble, 1995;Ruoppila, 2004;Trushchenko, 1995).…”

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Housing, Networks and Money: A Study of Workers in St. Petersburg

Salmi¹

2016

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This article examines housing in the Soviet and post-Soviet era drawing from interview material with fifty factory workers in St. Petersburg studied in 2000. While the Soviet era is often characterised by lack of choice, I argue that people were in fact able to influence their housing much more than is usually considered, although the choices available were certainly limited and action was tactical rather than strategic by nature (to borrow Michel de Certeau's concepts). I argue that money was far more important than is usually acknowledged, and many respondents emphasised that they earned decent money and were able to purchase housing in the Soviet era. Networks played a role too, for instance in attempts to influence the authorities in charge of housing or to manipulate the rules of allocation. I also show that various steps in the Soviet family's life course (e.g. marrying or having a child) were important in order to obtain housing. The post-Soviet era, in contrast, is characterised by lack of money and few opportunities to improve housing. For many respondents, then, it is the Soviet era that looks as an era that made action possible, whereas the opportunities to act have now been severely reduced. This, and not just pure nostalgia, explains why most respondents long for the Soviet times.

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“…Its suburban development has been the subject of some previous research (Blinnikov et al, 2006;Ioffe and Nefedova, 2001;Nefedova and Treivish, 2003). Since the fall of Communism in 1991 land use and ownership has changed rapidly in Russia, because of major changes in the underlying economical and political systems (Bater, 1994;Iyer, 2003),. Offe (1991, p. 875) describes the transition to capitalism as "a systematic change that includes a triple transformation of central planning into a market-based economy, of totalitarianism into democracy, and of the empire into nationstates."…”

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