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The Soviet Union created a unique form of urban modernity, developing institutions of social provisioning for hundreds of millions of people in small and medium-sized industrial cities spread across a vast territory. After the collapse of socialism these institutions were profoundly shaken--casualties, in the eyes of many observers, of market-oriented reforms associated with neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus. In Post-Soviet Social, Stephen Collier examines reform in Russia beyond the Washington Consensus. He turns attention from the noisy battles over stabilization and privatization during the 1990's to subsequent reforms that grapple with the mundane details of pipes, wires, bureaucratic routines, and budgetary formulas that made up the Soviet social state. Drawing on Michel Foucault's lectures from the late 1970's, Post-Soviet Social uses the Russian case to examine neoliberalism as a central form of political rationality in contemporary societies. The book's basic finding--that neoliberal reforms provide a justification for redistribution and social welfare, and may work to preserve the norms and forms of social modernity--lays the groundwork for a critical revision of conventional understandings of these topics.

Neoliberalism --- Biopolitics --- Post-communism --- Political behavior --- Neo-liberalism --- Economic aspects --- Russia (Federation) --- Economic policy --- Human behavior --- Political science --- Sociobiology --- Liberalism --- E-books --- Belaya Kalitva. --- Petrine absolutism. --- Rodniki. --- Russian absolutist state. --- Soviet Union. --- Soviet cities. --- Soviet city-building. --- Soviet planning. --- Soviet social modernity. --- Soviet social. --- Washington Consensus. --- Window of Opportunity. --- architectural avant-garde. --- budgetary austerity. --- budgetary reform. --- budgets. --- bureaucratic structures. --- centralized heating systems. --- city plan. --- city-building. --- collectivity. --- communal services reform. --- formal rationalization. --- government budget. --- industrial production. --- industrialization. --- infrastructural social modernity. --- infrastructure crisis. --- infrastructures. --- khoziaistvo. --- labor. --- liberalization. --- market economy. --- material structure. --- neoliberal reform. --- neoliberal reforms. --- neoliberalism. --- political projects. --- political rationality. --- privatization. --- production. --- redistribution. --- resource flow. --- settlement. --- social government. --- social modernity. --- social welfare. --- socialism. --- sociality. --- spatial development. --- spatial layout. --- stabilization. --- structural adjustment. --- substantive provisioning. --- urban development. --- urban modernity. --- urban populations. --- urban utilities. --- urbanist discussions.