ABSTRACT

This essay suggests legitimizing and promoting critical approaches in Russian studies, as well as acknowledging the multifaceted diversity within Russian society. This diversity needs to be taken into serious consideration in any research on Russia. Moreover, various levels of inequality that this rich diversity both creates and challenges should be reflected upon in multidisciplinary research, with the focus on historical legacies in the reproduction of those inequalities. The author argues against a limited understanding of inequalities as economic phenomena, and proposes to think about the variety of inequalities that are very prominent in the Russian context: categorical, symbolic, territorial, etc.

摘要

这篇文章建议合法化和促进俄罗斯研究中的批判方法，并承认俄罗斯社会的多方面多样性。在任何关于俄罗斯的研究中都需要认真考虑这种多样性。此外，应在多学科研究中反映这种丰富的多样性所造成和挑战的不同程度的不平等，重点关注这些不平等再生产的历史遗留问题。作者反对将不平等作为经济现象的有限理解，并建议思考在俄罗斯背景下非常突出的各种不平等：绝对的、象征性的、地域性的等。