Download or read book Social and Economic Inequality in the Soviet Union written by Murray Yanowitch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 1977. The Soviet Union is a socially divided society. The collectivities of which it is composed, whether designated as classes, strata, or "socio-occupational groups" (a term favored in recent Soviet writings on social structure), exhibit systematic differences in incomes and living standards, in control over the organization of the work place, in the educational and occupational opportunities open to their children. But what is new is that the social and economic inequalities which permeate Soviet life have become, within limits of course, accessible to study and discussion by Soviet scholars. The principal public justification for the study of inequality is the Party’s need for reliable information to implement its function of "scientific management" of the relations between the main social groups in Soviet society. This volume is a collection of six studies.
Download or read book Social and Economic Inequality in the Soviet Union written by Murray Yanowitch and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social and Economic Inequality in the Soviet Union written by Murray Yanowitch and published by . This book was released on 1977-06 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INEQUALITY IN THE SOVIET UNION 6 STUDIES written by Murray Yanowitch and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Soviet Union A Very Short Introduction written by Stephen Lovell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union, this Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into Soviet society and culture from 1917 to 1991. Stephen Lovell examines aspects of patriotism, political violence, poverty, and ideology, and provides answers to some of the big questions about the Soviet experience. Throughout, the book takes a refreshing thematic approach to the Soviet Union and provides an up-to-date consideration of the Soviet Union's impact and what we have learnt since its end.
Download or read book Income Inequalities in the Former Soviet Union and Its Republics written by Henryk Flakierski and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyses the newly available statistical evidence on income distribution in the former Soviet Union both by social group and by republic, and considers the significance of inequalities as a factor contributing to the demise of the Communist regime. Among the topics covered are wage distribution (interbranch and skill differentials and distribution in terms of gender, education, and age), income distribution for the former USSR as a whole, and wage and income distribution patterns for each republic, with analysis of regional differences.
Download or read book Income Inequality and Poverty During the Transition from Planned to Market Economy written by Branko Milanovi? and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Technical Paper No. 394. Joint Forest Management (JFM) has emerged as an important intervention in the management of Indias forest resources. This report sets out an analytical method for examining the costs and benefits of JFM arrangements. Two pilot case studies in which the method was used demonstrate interesting outcomes regarding incentives for various groups to participate. The main objective of this study is to develop a better understanding of the incentives for communities to participate in JFM.
Download or read book Economic Welfare in the Soviet Union written by Alastair McAuley and published by Madison : University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on income distribution, standard of living and other trends regarding economic disparity in the USSR - discusses measurement and evaluation of poverty and wealth, and considers public expenditure with respect to welfare, aspects of wage determination and wage policy in a planned economy, regional disparities in incomes, inequality and social stratification, etc. Bibliography pp. 373 to 382, glossary, graphs and statistical tables.
Download or read book Social Stratification and Moblity in the USSR written by Murray Yanowitch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 1973. The selections from Soviet sociological literature presented in this volume are significant from at least three standpoints. First, they reveal the extent to which the issue of social and economic inequality has become a subject for legitimate public discussion in the Soviet Union. Second, these selections offer the reader a means of appraising the quality of work in what, under Soviet conditions, is the formative period of a new intellectual discipline. Third, the selections provide abundant empirical evidence bearing on the forms and degrees of inequality currently found in Soviet society.
Download or read book New Directions in Soviet Social Thought An Anthology written by Murray Yanowitch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume illustrate the kind of expansionary logic that has characterized Soviet reformist thinking in the social sciences in the 1980s. The themes discussed show the wide-ranging and multidisciplinary nature of reformist currents in the Soviet Union.
Download or read book Class Inequality and Political Order written by Frank Parkin and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Inequality in Divided Russia written by Stephen Wegren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines economic and political polarisation in post-Soviet Russia, and in particular analyses the development of rural inequality. It discusses how rural inequality has developed in post-Soviet Russia, and how it differs from the Soviet period, and goes on to look at the factors that affect rural stratification and inequality, using human and social capital, profession, gender, and village location as independent variables. The book uses survey data from rural households and fieldwork in Russia in order to highlight the multiplicity of divisions that act as fault lines in contemporary rural Russia.
Download or read book Controversies in Soviet Social Thought written by Murray Yanowitch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past several years observers have become aware of what might be called the "expansionary logic" of the reform debate in the Soviet Union. Punctuated by periods of reaction and retreat, successive phases of reform momentum have brought to the fore ideas and proposals that only months before had been considered too radically unorthodox for prudent discussion. In this account, Murray Yanowitch traces the dynamic evolution of reform thinking and the emergence of liberal and social-democratic schools of thought on several pivotal issues. He shows how the contemporary debate over a recurrent theme - workplace democracy - escalated into demands for democratization of the society and political pluralism, and how similarly time-honoured discussions of the problem of economic inequality took unexpected turns, leading to reconsideration of notions of social justice, attacks on privilege, and, ultimately, demands for destatization and property reform. The cumulative impact of these developments, Yanowitch shows, has not only delegitimated the monopoly of the Communist party but has destroyed the sacral character of Marxism-Leninism itself.
Download or read book Russian Women and the End of Soviet Socialism written by Judith McKinney and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initially expected to bring efficiency to the Russian economy and prosperity to Russian society, the shock therapy of price liberalization, privatization and macroeconomic stabilization introduced under Boris Yeltsin was quickly condemned as having worsened the lives of most Russians. Based on conversations with more than two dozen women in a provincial Russian capital, this book takes a retrospective look at these economic policies and explores how they transformed the trajectory of the lives of these women- both positively and negatively- in the family and in the workplace. McKinney considers the everyday experiences of the women as they provided for their families, established businesses, travelled abroad, and adjusted to the new economic, political and social environment of the Late Soviet and Post-Soviet era. Through their divergent experiences, Russian Women and the End of Soviet Socialism casts light on how these women view issues of gender, ethnicity, domestic and international politics, and the end of the Soviet experiment. Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including gender studies, sociology, economics and history, will find this book of interest.
Download or read book Poverty in the Soviet Union written by Mervyn Matthews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-10-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant analysis of Soviet poverty from Soviet as well as Western sources. Emphasizes lifestyle and social issues, although some problems of an industrialized society are also considered.
Download or read book Economic Growth and the Middle Class in an Economy in Transition written by Zoya Nissanov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the evolution of the middle class in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. Using data from the RLMS (Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey), the volume covers the period of transition (1991-2008) during which many fundamental economic reforms were implemented. The first part of the book is devoted to a discussion of the concept of middle class and a description of the economic situation in Russia during the transition period. Particular attention is given to variations in the distribution of Russian incomes and the estimated importance of the middle class. The second part of the book focuses on the link between the middle class and income bipolarization. The third and last section of the book uses the semiparametric "mixture model" to discover how many different groups may be derived from the income distribution in Russia, as well as what the main socio-economic and demographic characteristics of those groups are. The mobility of households into and out of the middle class during the transition period is also studied in hopes of determining the factors that contribute to such mobility. Using rigorous empirical methods, this volume sheds light on a relatively unstudied economic group and provides insight for countries which are about to enter a transition period. As such, this book will be of great interest to researchers in economics and inequality as well as professionals and practitioners working with international organizations.
Download or read book Gender Work and Wages in the Soviet Union written by K. Katz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plight of women in post-reform Russia has its roots in the combination of the new, untrammelled market system and the old legacy of discrimination. The Soviet Union was the first country to give women equal rights and equal pay, but this was not carried through in practice. This is the first study to apply modern econometrics to survey-data collected in the USSR. Analysis of data from Russia shows how legislative equality hid actual discrimination. Katz also challenges the conventional wisdom that, for ideological reasons, Soviet manual workers were favoured over the highly educated. Gender, Work and Wages in the Soviet Union includes a critical survey of economic theories of gender and wages and the Soviet wage-system. The final chapter brings the debate up to date by examining how old and new mechanisms of gender inequality interact in post-Soviet Russia.
