De Gruyter Handbook of Eurasian Societies (De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences Handbooks, 22)

Post-Soviet Eurasia is one of the world’s most geopolitically consequential and rapidly transforming regions.Developments across it increasingly reshape political, economic and social relations far beyond its borders.Understanding these dynamics is therefore both intellectually urgent and analytically demanding, requiring an interdisciplinary approach capable of moving beyond established categories and fragmented national perspectives. This handbook provides a wide-ranging comparative account of post-socialist transformations across Eurasian societies.It brings together diverse theoretical approaches and research methods, offering on-the-ground perspectives from anthropology, political and cultural sociology, comparative criminology, human geography, urban studies, gender studies and cultural history. Written by leading scholars, the chapters examine how societies and social groups respond to, negotiate and actively shape wider transformations in political economy.The chapters address