Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Russia

by Fran Markowitz

Anthropologist Fran Markowitz interviewed more than one hundred Russian teenagers to discover how adolescents have been coping with their country's seismic transitions. Her findings present a substantive challenge to near-axiomatic theories of human development that regard cultural stability as indispensable to the successful navigation of adolescence.

Markowitz's fieldwork leads to the surprising conclusion that the disruptions brought by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252068645
• ISBN13: 9780252068645
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"