In this study, based on extensive anthropological fieldwork throughout the 1990s, an "emerging new middle class" is examined as a socio-cultural phenomenon. Despite a global orientation and a taste for democracy, its members seemed to have internalized the New Order along with some lingering late...
post-Soviet eraIn the existing literature, the relatively stable period of the 1970s, in Russia, is characterised by the rise of 'socialist consumer modernity', while the affluent 2000s were the time when a new phenomenon, 'the culture of glamour', emerged. Both periods parallel some ...