Changing economies and changing identities in postsocialist Eastern Europe

This book addresses class formation and changes in personhood in contemporary Eastern Europe in the context of the spread of a market economy. Comprising studies from Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Russia, the volume explores practices, stories, and performances in everyday life worlds. The ethnographies show both individual and collective identities to be emergent projects, constrained by economic processes and state policies but ultimately created by people themselves as they pursue their interests and search for meaning.