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Calling for a broader new approach to social mobility research which goes beyond statistics and utilizes life stories and family case histories, this richly suggestive volume explores sociological issues such as transmission between family generations, how immigrants make good, how social elites survive revolutions, and the meanings of houses, places and dreams for mobility.

Uses qualitative techniques - such as life stories and family case studies - to examine the dynamics of mobility and address fundamental sociological questions. This book employs the case-study approach which allows the analysis of collective processes through their local effects, restoring the links with classics of sociological thought.

On Living Through Soviet Russia' is a collection of life stories and family history interview material collected by the editors and two Russian groups of interviewers, which reflects life in Soviet Russia from the 1917 revolution up to the thawing of the Cold War.