Post-socialist peasant?: rural and urban constructions of identity in Eastern Europe East Africa and the former Soviet Union

During the past decade, life in post-socialist states has been fraught with instability and conflict.

This book focuses on changing rural-urban relations - and growing divisions between them - in the context of the reforms.

Contributions to this volume explore responses to capitalist-oriented policies and reasons for rural disenfranchisement.

The work takes an ethnographic approach to exploring how 'global' processes engage with local, rural concerns in the post-socialist world.