Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Resistance - Softcover

Morris, Jeremy

 
9781350509313: Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Resistance

Synopsis

What do Russians really want? Do they want authoritarianism and are they prepared to go along with a war of conquest and destruction? Or do they want something else?

A landmark contribution to the field, Morris is the only social researcher to have carried out fieldwork in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine, engaging with communities in Moscow, regional cities, as well as rural areas to bring perspectives on Russian everyday lives that are now entirely inaccessible to the West. Everyday Politics in Russia uses the lens of micropolitics, defined not as politics in miniature but instead as taking seriously the political content of people's normal lives revealed in their practices, interactions and discussions. Based on decades-long interactions with people from a diverse cross-section of society in Russia – from security service officers to factory workers, from unemployed young men to citizen journalists and activists, this is the most comprehensive insight to date into the complexity of Russian attitudes toward war, their government and the post-1991 political trajectory.

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About the Author

Jeremy Morris is Professor in the Department of Global Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of Varieties of Russian Activism: State-Society Contestation in Everyday Life (2023), Everyday Postsocialism: Working-class communities in the Russian Margins (2016), and co-editor of New Media in New Eurasia (2015); The Informal Postsocialist Economy: Embedded Practices and Livelihoods (2014), Identity and Nation Building in Everyday Post-Socialist Life (2017). His article entitled 'Beyond Coping? Alternatives to Consumption within Russian Worker Networks', in Ethnography, was shortlisted for the BBC's 'Thinking Allowed' prize for ethnography in 2014.

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025
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