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Title Needed by nobody : homelessness and humanness in post-socialist Russia / Tova Höjdestrand.
Author Höjdestrand, Tova, 1964-
Published Ithaca, N.Y. ; London : Cornell University Press, 2009.


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 In Library  Standard  Library Level 6 Annexe  Sov Stud CH340 2009-H  

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Description ix, 231 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cm.
ISBN 9780801447013 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0801447011 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780801475931 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801475937 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN/ISSN 3074148
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-226) and index.
Contents "Excrement of the state" : the Soviet-Russian production of homelessness -- Refuse economics : getting by with the help of waste -- Perilous places : the use and abuse of space and bodies -- No close ones : about (absent) families and friends -- Friend or foe? The ambiguity of homeless togetherness -- Dirt, degradation, and death.
Series Cornell paperbacks.
Culture and society after socialism.
Library Class Sov Stud CH340
Subject Homelessness -- Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991-

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