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Housing the new Russia / Jane R. Zavisca.
Main entry:

Zavisca, Jane R. (Jane Roj), 1972-

Title & Author:

Housing the new Russia / Jane R. Zavisca.

Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

Description:

xv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Series:

Cornell paperbacks

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index.
Introduction : a painful question -- The Soviet promise : a separate apartment for every family -- Transplant failure : the American housing model in Russia -- Maternity capitalism : grafting pronatalism onto housing policy -- Property without markets : who got what as markets failed -- Disappointed dreams : distributive injustice in the new housing order -- Mobility strategies : searching for the separate apartment -- Rooms of their own : how housing affects family size -- Children are not capital : ambivalence about pronatalist housing policies -- To owe is not to own : why Russians reject mortgages -- Conclusion : a market that could not emerge.
Summary:

Zavisca examines Russia's attempts to transition from a socialist vision of housing, in which the government promised a separate, state-owned apartment for every family, to a market-based and mortgage-dependent model of home ownership.

Resources:
ebrary
ISBN:

9780801450372 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0801450373 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780801477379 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0801477379 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Housing Russia (Federation)
Housing policy Russia (Federation)
Residential real estate Russia (Federation)
Post-communism Social aspects Russia (Federation)
Logement Politique gouvernementale Russie.
Immobilier résidentiel Russie.
Postcommunisme Aspect social Russie.
Society.
Housing.
Housing policy.
Post-communism Social aspects.
Residential real estate.
Social conditions
Russia (Federation) Social conditions 1991-
Russie Conditions sociales 1991-
Russia (Federation)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278239
Call No.: BIB 213786
Status: Available

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