Attitudes, Poverty and Agency in Russia and Ukraine

Ann-Mari Sätre is Associate Professor in Economics, and a senior lecturer/researcher, at the Centre of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. She specializes in the structure and performance of the Soviet/Russian economy. Her current research focuses on poverty, local development, and women’s work in Russia. Ildikó Asztalos Morell, is an Associate Professor in Sociology at Mälardalen University, Sweden. She is also a senior research fellow at the Centre of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research interests include gender and economic transition during and after state socialism, welfare systems, and rural transition, with a focus on multiple marginalities in Hungary.

• 1. Attitudes, Poverty and Agency in Russia and Ukraine 2. Perceptions of Poverty in Small-town Russia 3. Homelessness in Ukraine: Structural Causes and Moral Evaluation 4. Families’ Ways of Coping with Poverty in Small-town Russia 5. Single Men, Single Stories: Alternative Paths in the Transition from the Late Soviet to the Neoliberal Market Economy in the Light of Life Stories 6. The Ukrainian Power Elite and Poverty Reductive Efforts: An Inquiry into a Selection of Elite Members’ Legislative and Philanthropic Initiatives 7. Policies Against Poverty in Russia – A Female Responsibility 8. Searching for a New Approach to Face Poverty on the Local Level, a Case Study in a Small Russian Town