Based on life-historical research with five Muscovites, this book provides an intimate portrait of their experience of the post-Soviet years as a period of intense refashioning of moral personhood. This process is revealed as uniquely personal, socially shared, and globally influenced.

Jarrett Zigon, Ph.D. in Anthropology (2006, CUNY Graduate Center), is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on morality in post-Soviet Russia and the anthropology of moralities, including Morality: an anthropological perspective (Berg 2008).