TY - BOOK AU - Collier,Stephen J TI - Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics SN - 9780691148311 AV - HC340.12 .C647 2017 U1 - 330.947 23 PY - 2011///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Biopolitics KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Neoliberalism KW - Post-communism KW - Economic aspects KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General KW - bisacsh KW - Belaya Kalitva KW - Petrine absolutism KW - Rodniki KW - Russian absolutist state KW - Soviet Union KW - Soviet cities KW - Soviet city-building KW - Soviet planning KW - Soviet social modernity KW - Soviet social KW - Washington Consensus KW - Window of Opportunity KW - architectural avant-garde KW - budgetary austerity KW - budgetary reform KW - budgets KW - bureaucratic structures KW - centralized heating systems KW - city plan KW - city-building KW - collectivity KW - communal services reform KW - formal rationalization KW - government budget KW - industrial production KW - industrialization KW - infrastructural social modernity KW - infrastructure crisis KW - infrastructures KW - khoziaistvo KW - labor KW - liberalization KW - market economy KW - material structure KW - neoliberal reform KW - neoliberal reforms KW - neoliberalism KW - political projects KW - political rationality KW - privatization KW - production KW - redistribution KW - resource flow KW - settlement KW - social government KW - social modernity KW - social welfare KW - socialism KW - sociality KW - spatial development KW - spatial layout KW - stabilization KW - structural adjustment KW - substantive provisioning KW - urban development KW - urban modernity KW - urban populations KW - urban utilities KW - urbanist discussions N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations and Tables --; Preface: Formal and Substantive --; Acknowledgments --; CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: Post-Soviet, Post-Social? --; PART ONE. Soviet Social Modernity --; Introduction --; CHAPTER TWO. The Birth of Soviet Biopolitics --; CHAPTER THREE. City-building --; CHAPTER FOUR. City-building in Belaya Kalitva --; CHAPTER FIVE. Consolidation, Stagnation, Breakup --; PART II. Neoliberalism and Social Modernity --; Introduction --; CHAPTER SIX. Adjustment Problems --; CHAPTER SEVEN. Budgets and Biopolitics --; CHAPTER EIGHT. The Intransigence of Things --; EPILOGUE: An Ineffective Controversy --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - The Soviet Union created a unique form of urban modernity, developing institutions of social provisioning for hundreds of millions of people in small and medium-sized industrial cities spread across a vast territory. After the collapse of socialism these institutions were profoundly shaken--casualties, in the eyes of many observers, of market-oriented reforms associated with neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus. In Post-Soviet Social, Stephen Collier examines reform in Russia beyond the Washington Consensus. He turns attention from the noisy battles over stabilization and privatization during the 1990s to subsequent reforms that grapple with the mundane details of pipes, wires, bureaucratic routines, and budgetary formulas that made up the Soviet social state. Drawing on Michel Foucault's lectures from the late 1970s, Post-Soviet Social uses the Russian case to examine neoliberalism as a central form of political rationality in contemporary societies. The book's basic finding--that neoliberal reforms provide a justification for redistribution and social welfare, and may work to preserve the norms and forms of social modernity--lays the groundwork for a critical revision of conventional understandings of these topics UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400840427?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400840427 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400840427.jpg ER -