Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, BiopoliticsThe Soviet Union created a unique form of urban modernity, developing institutions of social provisioning for hundreds of millions of people in small and medium sized industrial cities spread across a vast territory. After the collapse of socialism these institutions were profoundly shaken casualties, in the eyes of many observers, of market oriented reforms associated with neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus. In Post Soviet Social, Stephen