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Database research record2003·Russia

Contesting Capitalism at the Post-Soviet Dacha: The Meaning of Food Cultivation for Urban Russians

Zavisca J.R.

Slavic Review

Urban Farm DB summary

An ethnographic study showing that dacha food cultivation among urban Russians serves as a discursive arena for debating the rationality and morality of the post-Soviet transition to capitalism, not merely an economic survival strategy.