ABSTRACT

This disturbing volume probes beneath the rhetoric about system change in the transition societies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to examine the impact of political, social, and economic dislocation, ethnic conflict and civil war on the most population: children.

part One|54 pages

Social conditions

chapter 1|16 pages

The social and economic cost of transition

chapter 2|14 pages

Child health

chapter 3|8 pages

Environment

chapter 4|8 pages

Nutrition

chapter 5|6 pages

Education

part Two|32 pages

Child protection

chapter 7|8 pages

Child neglect, abuse, and exploitation

chapter 8|6 pages

Child labor

chapter 9|6 pages

Juvenile crime

part Three|84 pages

Different faces of the transition

chapter 10|8 pages

Children in the republics of former Yugoslavia

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 1

chapter 11|8 pages

Central Europe

Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia

chapter 12|10 pages

Children of the Baltic countries

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

chapter 13|12 pages

Southeastern Europe

Albania, Bulgaria, the Republic of Moldova, and Romania

chapter 14|14 pages

Belarus, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine

chapter 15|8 pages

The Caucasus countries

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia

chapter 16|8 pages

The Central Asian republics and Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan

chapter 17|6 pages

The Aral Sea disaster zone

Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan

chapter 18|8 pages

Minority groups

The indigenous peoples of northern and eastern Russia and the Roma

chapter |4 pages

Afterword