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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 11|28 pages
Breaching the Soviet Social Contract
Post-Soviet Social Policy Development in Ulyanovsk and Samara Oblasts
chapter 13|14 pages
Can International Cooperation Contribute to Social Cohesion in Russia?
Lessons from the Swedish Experience