“There is elegant coverage and discussion of Ukraine’s recent history and politics. Conceptually and methodologically the book is coherent and well justified.” • Jeremy Morris, Aarhus University

“This is a very substantial body of work. The insights are both novel and nuanced. While the account is especially compelling in that it is centered in Ukraine, there really is no comparable work of this depth for any of the post-Soviet states.” • Stephen Crowley, Oberlin College

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Introduction

Part I: Theoretical and Empirical Context

Chapter 1. Populism, Moral Economy, Informality: Imbricating the Political
Chapter 2. Ukrainian Political Economy: Embedded in the Moral Economy of Property Regimes and Identity Cleavages

Part II: The City

Chapter 3. From a Military Outpost to an Oligarchic Stronghold
Chapter 4. Archeology of Power: Regimes of Domination Reflected in the Urban Infrastructure

Part III: The Factory

Chapter 5. Informality and Hierarchies at the Soviet and Post-Soviet Workplace
Chapter 6. Paternalism in Decay: Post-Post-Soviet Inertia
Chapter 7. Politicized Embeddedness, Depoliticized Disembeddedness: New Factory Regimes

Part IV: Everyday Politics

Chapter 8. Distinction and Class: Strategies of Self-Valorization
Chapter 9. Mapping Lay Virtues on the National Political Landscape
Chapter 10. Political Attitudes and Attitude to Politics: Apathy and Authoritarian Anti-Corruption

Conclusion

References
Index