Introduction

The Green Banana of the Baltic States — Obstacles to Capitalist Development

1 Introduction

2 Structural Preconditions

3 Legitimacy and Integration

3.1 The Lessons of the Case of Estonia

4 Social Structure

5 Research Strategies and Theories

Contextualizing Social Stratification in Comparative Research

1 Introduction

2 Sectors versus Fields

3 Bourdieu: Fields, Capital and Habitus

3.1 Social Fields

3.2 Capital

3.3 Habitus

4 “Bourdieu’s Model”

5 Bourdieu from a Structural Point of View

5.1 Power Resources on the Economic Field

5.2 The Development of the Economic Field

6 Concluding Remarks

The Beginning of the Working Class Movement in the Soviet Union and Post-Socialist Societies (1989-1991)

1 The Emergence and the First Steps of the Working Class Movement in the USSR

1.1 Polyfunctional Social-Political Organizations in the World of Labour

1.2 The Specific Bipolar Character of the Soviet Working Class Movement

1.3 Wage Labour and the Preconditions for the Working Class Movement in the Society of State Socialism

1.4 The Impossibility of a Legal Working Class Movement in the Framework of State Socialism

1.5 The July Strike of 1989

1.6 Wave-Like Growth in 1990-1991

2 Post-Communist Working Class Organizations

2.1 From Pseudo Trade Unions to Genuine Trade Union Organizations: Possibilities and Limitations in Transforming the Old Trade Unions

2.2 The Emergence and Development of New Trade Unions

2.3 The Size and Influence of Old and New Trade Unions: The Necessity of Trade Union Pluralism

3 Conclusions

3.1 Ideology and Anti-Ideology in the Working Class Movement

Social Change and Marginality in Today’s Russia

1 Introduction

2 Factors of Mobility in Contemporary Russia

The Emergence of Civil Society in Estonia 1987-1994

1 Introduction

2 The Widening of Public Space — The Emergence of the Fourth Estate

3 “Movement Society” and “Mass Opinion” Formation

3.1 Towards the Formation of “Public Opinion”

4 Party Formation and the Development of Civil Society

5 The Estonian State and Immigrants and Minorities

6 Legal Frames of Estonian Nation-Building and Immigrants’ Integration Options

7 Legal and Civil Integration Perspectives

8 Conclusions

Social Stratification under Privatization in Lithuania

1 Introduction

2 The Process of Privatization

3 Privatization of the Land

4 Social Strata According to Material Status

5 Unemployment

6 People’s Interests and Conflicts

The Privatization of Agriculture and the Family Farm Ideology in the Baltic States

1 Introduction

2 The Structural, Ideological and Juridical Background of the Present Land Reform

3 The Family Farm Ideology and the Historical Conditions for the Rise of the Peasant State

4 Agricultural Petty Production During the Socialist Period

5 A Short-Term Alternative: A Backward System of Plot Farming

6 The Preconditions for a New Family Farm Project in the Baltic States

7 On the Long-Term Prospects

Women and Rural Development in Contemporary Estonia

1 The Background

2 Women as Farmers and Farm Wives

3 Connections

4 Losers

5 Conclusion

Notes on Contributors