‘They Called Us Spekulyanty’: Shame and Pride in the Biographies of Female Shuttle Traders in Post-Soviet Russia

Claudia Eggart

Europe-Asia Studies, 2023, vol. 75, issue 10, 1677-1697

Abstract: This article explores the emotional dimensions of post-1991 socioeconomic transformation in Russia. Biographical narratives of cross-border traders (chelnoki) offer insight into continuities and ruptures of social structures in Russia in the early 1990s and bring to the fore the salience of shame (styd) and pride (gordost’) in understanding social change. The negotiation of these emotions is influenced by the traders’ pre-1991 social status and affected their post-1991 pathways. Embedding the notions of styd and gordost’ in the context of changing moral, class and gender regimes illustrates that these emotions played a key role in the socioeconomic transformation of post-Soviet Russia.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2023.2186320

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