What is it about?
During the 1970s, tens of thousands of young labor migrants arrived in Moscow to work in the city's many enterprises. Many left the rural areas of the administrative regions near Moscow. Although these migrants only received temporary residency rights in the Soviet capital, cultural development programs in dormitories and places of employment helped the migrants fashion themselves into Muscovites. While glasnost and perestroika offered new economic and political freedoms, the rollback of state support for these migrants left them more vulnerable than ever before.
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This work offers a case study of temporary labor migration, comparable to guest worker programs and post colonial migration patterns elsewhere in the world. Moreover, this work also describes how socialism differed under Brezhnev and Gorbachev.
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This is my first scholarly publication, and I am happy to contribute to the growing historiography on developed socialism in the Soviet Union. I
Ms Emily Joan Elliott
Michigan State University
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This page is a summary of: Soviet Socialist Stars and Neoliberal Losers: Young Labour Migrants in Moscow, 1971–1991, Journal of Migration History, September 2017, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/23519924-00302006.
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