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The post-socialist city: insights from the spaces of radical societal change
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Golubchikov O.
Medushevsky A. N., Liberal.ru 2026
The Liberal Mission Foundation continues to introduce readers to new concepts of democracy and relevant publications. This discussion focuses on the challenges facing democracy in the era of globalization, as addressed in two recent books: *The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies* by S.C. Stokes (2025) and *Critical Theories and the Postsocialist Challenge: Race, ...
Added: August 26, 2026
Лыткина Т. С., Smirnov A., Мир России: Социология, этнология 2019 Т. 28 № 3 С. 27–47
In this article, based on official statistics 2000–2017, we argue that neoliberal policies have neglected the Russian North: its people, its enterprises and its territories have been expelled from core social and economic processes. We develop the concept of “expulsion” to argue that organized institutional exclusion is the result of mischaracterizing Northern welfare, intensifying the ...
Added: March 19, 2026
Иванов Л. А., Artsybasheva K., Исаков М. А. et al., В кн.: Исследования молодых географов: сборник статей участников зимних студенческих экспедиций.: ИП Ерхова И.М., 2025. С. 195–212.
Символические объекты исполняют в застроенном пространстве роль метафоры, погружающей в образ города. Особенно такие объекты важны в столицах, где они должны как репрезентировать всю страну миру, так и выступать представителями регионов, а также подчеркивать временную преемственность текущего состояния с воображаемой непрерывной историей. Повышенная знаковая, сигнификативная функция символических объектов часто вводит их в конфликт с непосредственным ...
Added: April 6, 2025
Em P., Sheludkov A., Habitat International 2024 Vol. 150 Article 103135
North Korea is one of the world's remaining totalitarian states. Nevertheless, marketization, despite officially being banned, rapidly developed and metamorphosed local society following the severe economic crisis of the mid-1990s. This article examines the transformation of central Pyongyang after 2000 through the lens of socio-spatial inequalities using residential housing as a key criterion. Utilizing historical ...
Added: July 19, 2024
Gorodnichev A., Скребкова Е. В., Городские исследования и практики 2022 Т. 7 № 1 С. 85–105
Moscow, as one of the largest cities in Europe and the world, has come a long way from the capital of a communist state to a global capitalist city in the last 30 years. The post-socialist transition of the urban space continues, and the legacy of the urban planning policy of the Soviet past will ...
Added: March 29, 2022
Ярошенко С. С., Шорн А., Журнал исследований социальной политики 2020 Т. 18 № 3 С. 491–508
This article is based on a case study of the Social Circus, a Russian NGO
created in the 2000s that focuses on developing the potential of children from
social risk groups. We analyse how the inclusion of these children into society
is performed, how the circus’s methods and socially oriented activism manage
to solve the problem of exclusion and ...
Added: October 22, 2021
Dokhov R., Алов И. Н., Shubina D. et al., Городские исследования и практики 2020 Т. 5 № 4 С. 35–53
During the post-socialist period, most of the non-capital cities of the former socialist countries experienced stagnation or shrinking. However, some of them switched to rapid growth of both population and built-up territory. As a result, over 30 years of development under free market conditions, extensive suburban areas have formed. On the case of Makhachkala, we ...
Added: October 30, 2020
Шляховая А. А., Dokhov R., Городские исследования и практики 2018 Т. 3 № 1 С. 40–62
Post-socialist cities need a tool to work with the morphological structure they inherited from the socialist era. The location of semi-peripheral micro-districts between the gentrified center and booming suburbs exacerbates the need for a new strategy for their development. In this article, we consider a soft technique for transforming existing micro-districts and creating Yardstreets — ...
Added: October 24, 2020
Pavel P.Em, Ward P., Cities 2021 Vol. 108 P. 102950
Pyongyang is often used as a metonym for North Korea's leaders and the issues their policies create for the world. However, the profound internal changes rapidly transforming the city since the 1990s make Pyongyang a fascinating urban case study. This profile is an attempt to shed light on one of the most ‘mysterious’ cities in ...
Added: October 10, 2020
Dokhov R., Синицын Н. А., Известия РАН. Серия географическая 2020 Т. 84 № 2 С. 191–206
Belgorod is one of the earliest and most prominent examples of the development of Western-style suburbanization in post-Soviet Russia. Based on the analysis of satellite images’ time-series, we traced dynamics of Belgorod suburbia development, and determined factors of its localization. We propose a method to interpret types of suburban settlement patterns (e.g. a system of ...
Added: July 12, 2020
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Book of abstracts of the 8th International Urban Geographies of Post-Communist States Conference (CAT-ference 2019) ...
Added: October 4, 2019
Gunko M., Bogacheva P., Medvedev A. et al., , in: Housing Estates in Europe. Poverty, Ethnic Segregation and Policy Challenges.: Springer, 2018. Ch. 13 P. 289–311.
Since the 1950s, Moscow’s housing development has been underlined
by modernist planning schemes. From the 20th to 21st centuries, the quality and
appearance of apartment buildings changed, but housing estates designed as
coherent neighbourhoods not only remain the principal type of housing organization
but are still being constructed in Moscow and its suburbs. Though the concept
itself has not been ...
Added: September 8, 2019
Рудь Д. С., Социология власти 2017 Т. 29 № 4 С. 172–196
This article describes today’s discursive representation features of buildings created
for non-regular everyday use in socialist cities. Descriptions of residential
complexes for workers in two countries are used as empirical base: one case in
Russia, Moscow, and two cases in China, Taiyuan and Wuhan. We use collective
memory concept by A. Assman to analyze strategies implied by different agents to
attract ...
Added: April 2, 2019
Buedenbender M., Zupan D., speri, UK 2016
Added: September 27, 2018
Routledge, 2018.
Gendering Postsocialism explores changes in gendered norms and expectations in Eastern Europe and Eurasia after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The dismantlement of state socialism in these regions triggered monumental shifts in their economic landscape, the involvement of their welfare states in social citizenship and, crucially, their established gender norms and relations, all contributing to ...
Added: March 11, 2018
Golubchikov O., Eurasian Geography and Economics 2016 Vol. 57 No. 4-5 P. 607–623
This paper debates the relationships between transition and urbanization by problematizing the operation of transition on three inter-related levels. Firstly, at the level of ideology, it is important to rehearse the understanding of transition from that of merely area-based reforms and rather understand it as a totalizing project of planetary reach, which completes the subjugation ...
Added: December 5, 2016
Kruglova A., Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research 2013 No. 1 P. 25–51
Growing out of the history of social, psychological, and moral-philosophical delineations of class in former USSR, the tension between two aesthetic/ethical stances was brought to a particularly stark relief, and given a new interpretation, in a recent contestation of public space in a mid-size industrial Russian city. The article explores how the intellectualist and especially ...
Added: November 10, 2016
Salukvadze J., Golubchikov O., Cities 2016 Vol. 52 P. 39–54
Tbilisi, a city of over a million, is the national capital of Georgia. Although little explored in urban studies, the city epitomizes a fascinating assemblage of processes that can illuminate the interplay of geopolitics, political choices, globalization discourses, histories, and urban contestations in shaping urban transformations. Tbilisi's strategic location in the South Caucasus, at the ...
Added: February 23, 2016
Swader C. S., Vorobeva I. D., Sexuality and Culture 2015 Vol. 19 No. 2 P. 321–348
“Compensated dating” (CD) indicates the exchange of sexual intimacy for material compensation. This article investigates CD as receivinggifts for sex, such as luxuries, rent, travel, or monetary gifts. It proceeds by describing who engages in the practice and why, while comparing Russia with its cultural and linguistic neighbors, Ukraine and Belarus. A survey, which was ...
Added: October 7, 2015
Yudin G., Pavlyutkin I., Cultural Studies 2015 Vol. 29 No. 5-6 P. 807–826
In this paper we draw upon important distinctions suggested by classics of anthropology in order to develop a theoretical approach to the phenomenon of debt. Building on the opposition between the logic of the gift and that of the market, we elucidate moral tensions that call debt relations into being. However, instead of reducing debt ...
Added: June 15, 2015