4. Property without Markets: Who Got What as Markets Failed

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Note on Translation and Russian Names xv
7. Introduction: A Painful Question 1
8. Part I: The Development of the Post-Soviet Housing Regime
9. 1. The Soviet Promise: A Separate Apartment for Every Family 23
10. 2. Transplant Failure: The American Housing Model in Russia 49
11. 3. Maternity Capitalism: Grafting Pronatalism onto Housing Policy 69
12. 4. Property without Markets: Who Got What as Markets Failed 86
13. Part II: The Meaning of Housing in the New Russia
14. 5. Disappointed Dreams: Distributive Injustice in the New Housing Order 103
15. 6. Mobility Strategies: Searching for the Separate Apartment 130
16. 7. Rooms of Their Own: How Housing Affects Family Size 144
17. 8. Children Are Not Capital: Ambivalence about Pronatalist Housing Policies 163
18. 9. To Owe Is Not to Own: Why Russians Reject Mortgages 175
19. Conclusion A Market That Could Not Emerge 194
20. Appendix: Characteristics of Interviewees Cited in Text 201
21. Notes 207
22. Works Cited 219
23. Index 237