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This 3-page paper is a review of Melissa Caldwell's "Not by Bread Alone," her book of poverty and hunger in post-Soviet Russia. She uses the CCM soup kitchen as a type of allegory/microcosm to discuss poverty in Russia and how its people react to it.
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Cruz, uses the Christian Church of Moscows soup kitchen as a type of metaphor for a study of both poverty and social welfare in post-communist Russia. Through her depiction of
every day operations at the CCM, she manages to pull out information dealing with how social support is working in Russia today.
In Russia, for example, soup kitchens dole out more than simply food - in Caldwells book, these kitchens represent a certain amount of stability in an uncertain world. Its also
interesting to note that when discussing the Muscovites, they tend to define poverty as more of a lack of social contacts or inner spirit, rather than a lack of material
means. This, in fact, is where the soup kitchens come in so handy - they are a place for the Muscovites to gather, be fed and share their news and
views of the day. The table of contents does a very good job of pointing out the direction the book will be
taking. With subheads such as "Making Do: Everyday Survival in a Shortage Society" and "From Hand to Hand," Caldwell points out the need that social structures have had in forming
the society of post-socialist/communist Russia. One of her focuses involves a feud between a couple of the "regulars" at the kitchen (between
Oksana and Aleksandra Petrovna, two of the volunteers), and how she compared that feud to the general social life in current day Russia.
She furthermore engages this theme through the chapters "The Forest Feeds Us" (which deals with the so-called "bounty" of nature through "subsistence" gardening), and "Strategic Intimacy," in which she
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