ABSTRACT

This work shows that the collapse of socialist employment and social service systems - and of the USSR itself - has had profoundly damaging effects, manifested in dislocation and homelessness, ethnic strife, family breakdown, declining life expectancy, and soaring rates of violence and crime.

chapter 1|14 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|17 pages

Social Cohesion in Russia

The State and the Public Sector

chapter 3|21 pages

Public Administration in Social Services

The Need and Capacities for Reform

chapter 7|14 pages

When Crime-Fighting Fails

The Case of Russia

chapter 8|20 pages

The Gender Dimension of Social Capital in Russia

The Novosibirsk Case

chapter 11|28 pages

Breaching the Soviet Social Contract

Post-Soviet Social Policy Development in Ulyanovsk and Samara Oblasts

chapter 12|12 pages

International Assistance to Russia

Models That Work

chapter 13|14 pages

Can International Cooperation Contribute to Social Cohesion in Russia?

Lessons from the Swedish Experience

chapter 15|30 pages

Programs for Homeless Children

chapter 16|23 pages

Russia in Transition

Social Problems in an Atomized Society