This collection of ethnographies offers a picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe. The authors challenge the idea that we can understand this transformation by the predictable models, whether capitalism, post-socialism, modernity, or postmodernity.

The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to date. The collection brings together a wide-ranging group of authors from sociology, anthropology, and political science to reveal the complex relationships that still exist between the former socialist world and the world today.