ISBN:
9780415076005
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (458 p.)
Edition:
2nd ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Soviet Society Under Perestroika
DDC:
306/.0947
Keywords:
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Abstract:
Up-to-the-minute revision of the successful text which sets striking evidence of new social, economic and political phenomena against theory from East and West
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Tables page; List of Figures; Preface; CHANGING CONCEPTIONS OF SOVIET SOCIETY; The Image of the Soviet Union: Benign; The Image of the Soviet Union: Malevolent; From Khrushchev to Gorbachev: The Changing Nature of Soviet Politics; Contradictions Under Socialism; Perestroika: Gorbachev's Reform Strategy; Instability and Political Control; KHOZRASCHET: MANAGING THE ECONOMY; The Soviet Planned Economy before Perestroika: An Overview; Repercussions of the Soviet System of Planned Economy; The Economy and Political Reform; The Effects of the Reforms
Description / Table of Contents:
Conclusion: After the Coup of August 1991Appendix: Gorbachev's Ministries and State Committees (1991); DEMOKRATIZATSIYA: FROM PARTOCRACY TO PRESIDENCY; Representative Institutions: The Soviets; Reform of the Soviets Prior to the Coup; The Electoral Process; The Communist Party; The Presidency of the USSR; The Coup of August 1991 and its Repercussions; Summary of Changes; Readings: Eltsin's Election Platform (21 March 1989); CPSU Programme Statement, July 1990; PLYURALIZM: TOWARD CIVIL SOCIETY?; Soviet Collectivism and Dissent; Perestroika and Civil Society
Description / Table of Contents:
Perestroika and the Limits of Socialist PluralismContinuity, Change and Instability; Reading: Manifesto by Nina Andreeva, ~I Cannot Forego Principles~; Selected Bibliography for Part One; THE CHANGING SOCIAL STRUCTURE; Class Structure; The Traditional Soviet Conception of Classes: Consensus; The Evolution of Soviet Classes; Distributional and Relational Inequalities; The Rise of an Independent Workers' Movement; Conclusion: Perestroika and the Social Structure; NATIONALITIES AND ETHNIC RELATIONS; The National and Ethnic Complexion of the Population; The Administrative Setting
Description / Table of Contents:
Comparative Levels of Development in the RepublicsNational Identity and Consciousness; Perestroika and the National Problem; From Glasnost' to Disintegration; Readings: Declarations of Sovereignty or Independence; The Charter of the Estonian People's Front (1988); Treaty on the Union of Sovereign States, July 1991; REPRODUCING SOCIETY: GENDER, FAMILY, AND GENERATIONS; Generations; Selected Bibliography for Part Two; FORMING THE SOVIET PERSON: EDUCATION, SOCIALIST RITUAL, AND TRADITION; Values and Norms; The Educational System; Ritual and Ceremony; GLASNOST': THE MASS MEDIA
Description / Table of Contents:
Media and CommunicationThe Organization of the Soviet Media; Changes in the Media Under Perestroika; Conclusions; THE STATE OF WELFARE: PENSIONS AND THE AGED, HOUSING, AND HEALTH; Soviet Welfare Provision; Selected Bibliography for Part Three; PERESTROIKA: NEW BEGINNINGS; Becoming Modern; The Social Forces for and against Perestroika; Whither Perestroika?; Appendix: Constitution of the USSR, as Amended in December 1990; About the Author; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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