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Wartime Suffering and Survival

The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad, 1941-1944

By: Jeffrey K. Hass

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Wartime Suffering and Survival

The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad, 1941-1944

By: Jeffrey K. Hass

During the 872-day siege of Leningrad from September 1941 to January 1944, civilians endured air raids, bread rations as low as 125 grams, food theft and speculation by opportunistic officials and shadow market traders, and death by starvation. As shocks of total war weaken institutions, desperate survival can compel violation of norms, and personal suffering can shatter long-held beliefs and practices. In Wartime Suffering and Survival, Jeffrey K. Hass uses the Blockade of Leningrad in World War II to explore the social practices and dynamics by which we cope or collapse. Using hundreds of personal accounts from diaries, recollections, police records, interviews, and state documents, Hass tells the story of how average Leningraders coped with the nightmares of war, starvation, and extreme uncertainty. By exploring the state and shadow markets, food, families, gender, class, death, and suffering, he describes the routines of daily life, the functioning of official institutions, and the development of illegal practices that were made and remade in the interactions of citizens and state agencies coping with new and extreme situations. The key to what Leningraders did and how they survived, Hass argues, is relations to anchors--entities of symbolic and personal significance that tethered Leningraders to each other and shaped practices of empathy and compassion, and of opportunism and egoism. Moving and powerful, Wartime Suffering and Survival goes to the heart of human resilience and fragility and to the core of the human condition--both individual and social.

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Oxford University Press

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0197514294

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9780197514290

Economic Sociology

An Introduction

By: Jeffrey K. Hass

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Economic Sociology

An Introduction

By: Jeffrey K. Hass

Economic Sociology provides the clearest and most comprehensive account of the promises of economic sociology. It shows how economies are more than supply-and-demand curves, individual profit motives, and efficient performance: they are forms of power and structure, grounded in institutions and culture. What is calculated, how, and why? Are profit and efficiency always so central to economic structures and outcomes? What shapes change and reproduction in economic practices and policies? How have classes and states, using power and institutions, created and continue to shape the economic world we live in? This second edition presents a critical and sophisticated, yet approachable analysis of economic behavior and phenomena. After describing key concepts and logics of economic sociology and of economic sociology (its eternal cousin and competitor), Hass turns the sociologist’s analytic eye to the heart of economic practices comparing how they work in the United States, Europe, East Asia, Latin America, and post-socialist Russia and China. The volume addresses crucially important economic issues that touch our well-being and justice: the rise and structuring of capitalism; relations between states and economies; economic policies; economies and inequality; and organizations and corporations. Causes and consequences of globalization and the Great Recession are laid out for the reader. With economics and economic sociology placed side-by-side in this journey of how economies operate in the past and present, the reader gets different perspectives on economic reality. Power and culture, institutions and fields, classes and corporations interact on this historical and global stage. Written in a clear and direct style, this textbook will appeal to students and scholars in economic sociology, sociology of work, economics, social policy, political economy and comparative sociology

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1315439662

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Economic Sociology

An Introduction

By: Jeffrey K. Hass

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An Introduction

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Power, Culture, and Economic Change in Russia

To the undiscovered country of post-socialism, 1988-2008

By: Jeffrey K Hass

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Power, Culture, and Economic Change in Russia

To the undiscovered country of post-socialism, 1988-2008

By: Jeffrey K Hass

Utilising cutting-edge theory and unique data, this book examines the role of power, culture, and practice in Russia’s story of post-socialist economic change, and provides a framework for addressing general economic change. No other book places power and culture as centrally as this, and in doing so it provides new insights not only into how Russia came to its present state under Putin, but also how economies operate and change generally. In particular, the importance of remaking authority and culture - creating and contesting new categories and narratives of meaning - is shown as central to Russia’s story, and to the story of economies overall. Power, Culture and Economic Change in Russia is an excellent research tool for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of sociology, political science, economics, area studies, and other related disciplines.

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1136728147

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The Assassination of Fred Hampton

How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther

By: Jeffrey Haas

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The Assassination of Fred Hampton

How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther

By: Jeffrey Haas

Read the story behind the award-winning film Judas and the Black Messiah On December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton's fiancÉe. Deborah Johnson described how the police pulled her from the room as Fred lay unconscious on their bed. She heard one officer say, "He's still alive." She then heard two shots. A second officer said, "He's good and dead now." She looked at Jeff and asked, "What can you do?" The Assassination of Fred Hampton remains Haas's personal account of how he and People's Law Office partner Flint Taylor pursued Hampton's assassins, ultimately prevailing over unlimited government resources and FBI conspiracy. Fifty years later, Haas writes that there is still an urgent need for the revolutionary systemic changes Hampton was organizing to accomplish. Not only a story of justice delivered, this book spotlights Hampton as a dynamic community leader and an inspiration for those in the ongoing fight against injustice and police brutality.

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Chicago Review Press

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1641603224

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Wartime Suffering and Survival

The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad, 1941-1944

By: Jeffrey K. Hass

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The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad, 1941-1944

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Wartime Suffering and Survival

Wartime Suffering and Survival

Economic Sociology

Economic Sociology

Economic Sociology

Economic Sociology

Power, Culture, and Economic Change in Russia

Power, Culture, and Economic Change in Russia

The Assassination of Fred Hampton

The Assassination of Fred Hampton

Wartime Suffering and Survival

Wartime Suffering and Survival

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