Socialism Social Welfare And The Soviet Union

Author : Vic George,Nicholas Manning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
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Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000519747

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Socialism, Social Welfare and the Soviet Union by Vic George,Nicholas Manning Pdf

First published in 1980, Socialism, Social Welfare and the Soviet Union examines the views of Marx, Engels and Lenin on what constitutes a socialist form of provision of social security, income, education, health and housing. The authors discuss the implementation of these ideas in the Soviet Union since the 1917 Revolution in the context of economic and political development, and describe the social services in the Soviet Union, assessing the extent to which the original ideas have been matched by reality. They also briefly survey the views of several East European academic writers on social policy, outlining some distinctive features of social policy in the Eastern bloc. The authors’ general conclusion is that the Soviet Union has made great progress in social policy provision; from their research and from their visits in the course of writing this book, they show that the social services of the Soviet Union are as good as and, in some ways, more comprehensive than those of Western Europe. Equally important is their conclusion that a society in which the means of production and distribution are nationalised, and which makes a full provision of social services is not necessarily a socialist society. This book will appeal to students of sociology, political science and area studies.

Author : John Dixon,David Macarov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317366553

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Social Welfare in Socialist Countries by John Dixon,David Macarov Pdf

First published in 1992, this book analyses social welfare in eight socialist countries, at that time: Czechoslovakia, China, Cuba, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, North Korea and the Soviet Union. For each country it considers the ideological framework underlying the social welfare system and describes the historical development of both the system and the political and socio-economic context. Each chapter looks at the structure and administration of the systems in place and how these are financed. This is followed by a consideration of the nature of different parts of the welfare system, a survey of social security, personal social services and the treatment of the following key target groups: the aged; those with disabilities and handicaps; children and youth; disadvantaged families; the unemployed; and the sick and injured. Each chapter concludes with an assessment of the effectiveness of the system considered.

Author : Bob Deacon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015001766917

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Social Policy and Socialism by Bob Deacon Pdf

Author : Sabine Hering
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783847413042

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Social Care under State Socialism (1945-1989) by Sabine Hering Pdf

In the period of State Socialism in Eastern Europe (1945- 1989) Social Welfare was exercised on two levels: The dominant level was the system of governmental Social Policy, because individual and private structures of so - cial help were considered as a dispensable bourgeois tradition. According to this perception, social welfare should include an extensive system of support and social services, although, in reality, special groups of ́ ́asocials ́ ́ and ́ ́parasites ́ ́ were excluded. Although - except for Yugoslavia - social work as a profession was nearly totally eliminated, modulated forms of social care had to be provided, because people like handicapped, elderly or mentally disabled still were in need. There - fore, Social Care was realised on a subordinated level - mostly allocated to proximate vocations or organisations like teachers, nurses and mass organisations. Experts from the respective countries explain what it was like. Countries under scrutiny: Bulgaria, Czechoslowakia, GDR, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union, Yugoslavia

Author : Linda J. Cook
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674828003

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The Soviet Social Contract and why it Failed by Linda J. Cook Pdf

This book is the first critical assessment of the likelihood and implications of such a contract. Linda Cook pursues the idea from Brezhnev's day to our own, and considers the constraining effect it may have had on Gorbachev's attempts to liberalize the Soviet economy.

Author : Bob Deacon,Júlia Szalai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034770375

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Social Policy in the New Eastern Europe by Bob Deacon,Júlia Szalai Pdf

Comprises papers presented at the Social Policy and Socialism Conference held in 1988 at Leeds and several written specifically for this book.

Author : David L. Hoffmann
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801462832

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Cultivating the Masses by David L. Hoffmann Pdf

Under Stalin's leadership, the Soviet government carried out a massive number of deportations, incarcerations, and executions. Paradoxically, at the very moment that Soviet authorities were killing thousands of individuals, they were also engaged in an enormous pronatalist campaign to boost the population. Even as the number of repressions grew exponentially, Communist Party leaders enacted sweeping social welfare and public health measures to safeguard people's well-being. Extensive state surveillance of the population went hand in hand with literacy campaigns, political education, and efforts to instill in people an appreciation of high culture. In Cultivating the Masses, David L. Hoffmann examines the Party leadership's pursuit of these seemingly contradictory policies in order to grasp fully the character of the Stalinist regime, a regime intent on transforming the socioeconomic order and the very nature of its citizens. To analyze Soviet social policies, Hoffmann places them in an international comparative context. He explains Soviet technologies of social intervention as one particular constellation of modern state practices. These practices developed in conjunction with the ambitions of nineteenth-century European reformers to refashion society, and they subsequently prompted welfare programs, public health initiatives, and reproductive regulations in countries around the world. The mobilizational demands of World War I impelled political leaders to expand even further their efforts at population management, via economic controls, surveillance, propaganda, and state violence. Born at this moment of total war, the Soviet system institutionalized these wartime methods as permanent features of governance. Party leaders, whose dictatorship included no checks on state power, in turn attached interventionist practices to their ideological goal of building socialism.

Author : Michael Paul Sacks,Jerry G. Pankhurst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136031762

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Understanding Soviet Society by Michael Paul Sacks,Jerry G. Pankhurst Pdf

First Published in 1988. Understanding Soviet Society has grown out of the authors’ experience as sociologists researching and teaching about the Soviet Union. Meant initially as an update to ‘Contemporary Soviet Society: Sociological Perspectives’ from 1980, this became a new volume because of the addition of six new authors, but also because of the major changes occurring in the USSR today that in many ways necessitated new approaches. It examines the fundamnetal institutions of Soviet society- from work and social welfare to politics and the Party- in order order to provide an objective understanding of the social underpinnigs of the Soviet System.

Author : Bernice Q. Madison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:251366977

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Social Welfare in the Soviet Union by Bernice Q. Madison Pdf

Author : Alan Abouchar
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483145198

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Economic Evaluation of Soviet Socialism by Alan Abouchar Pdf

Economic Evaluation of Soviet Socialism examines the economic achievements of Soviet socialism from a variety of perspectives. The Soviet Union's failure to eliminate inflation and its implications for the economy are considered in comparison to a capitalist developed or industrializing economy. The effects of inflation on welfare and efficiency are also discussed. This book is comprised of eight chapters and opens by sketching the distinguishing characteristics of Soviet socialism as well as six major sources of interest in the evaluation of Soviet socialism. The next section deals with three kinds of issues relating to Soviet socialist performance: organizational-structural aspects, economic growth, and efficiency. Questions such as whether the Soviet economy may have been able to obviate the traditional undesirable consequences of inflation are addressed. The growth of the economy and of important macroeconomic aggregates, such as national income, industrial production, and consumption, is also analyzed. The remaining chapters focus on economic efficiency in agriculture and industry in relation to the Soviet price mechanism. This monograph will be of interest to economists, social scientists, policymakers, and government officials.

Author : Bob Deacon,Paul Stubbs,Natalija Atas,Sofiya An,Tatiana Chubarova
Publisher : Ibidem Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3838213084

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Social Policy, Poverty, and Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union by Bob Deacon,Paul Stubbs,Natalija Atas,Sofiya An,Tatiana Chubarova Pdf

This book takes stock of the diverse and divergent welfare trajectories of postsocialist countries across central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Authors from different disciplines address key aspects of social protection including health care, poverty reduction measures, labor market policies, pension systems, and child welfare.

Author : S. Pejovich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789400935716

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Socialism: Institutional, Philosophical and Economic Issues by S. Pejovich Pdf

It was Lenin's genius to recognize the importance of [socialist] system with all the trappings of embellishing the democracy. If the people want a constitution. give them one. and even include the bill of rights. If they want a parliament, give them that too. And a system of courts. If they want a federal system create that myth as well. Above all, let them have e 1 ecti ons, for the act of voti ng is what the common man most clearly associates with democracy. Give them all these, but make sure that they have no effect on how things are run. - G. Warren Nutter Most research by Western scholars has emphasized macroeconomics (and to a considerable extent still does) as the method of analysis and growth rates as a standard for evaluating the performance of different economies. In the early 1960s Nutter raised questions about the reported growth rates in socialist states, the importance of growth policies for human welfare, and the abil ity of macroeconomi cs to enhance our understandi ng of soci a 1 and economic processes. In his work, Nutter used the standard price theory adjusted to incorporate the incentive effects of property rights in resources. He was casti gated for defyi ng the traditi ona 1 wi sdom. Not surprisingly, history has validated Nutter's theoretical framework and his conclusions.

Author : L.G. Churchward
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781040005453

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Soviet Socialism by L.G. Churchward Pdf

Soviet Socialism (1987) is based on the author’s specialized knowledge of many aspects of Soviet politics, including local government, the Communist Party and the Soviet intelligentsia. Written originally after the death of Brezhnev, in the Andropov-Chernenko interregnum, the essays were revised to take account of the accession to power of Mikhail Gorbachev, and they cover a selection of interrelated themes drawn from Soviet politics and society. The detached view the author takes of the Soviet state presents a new and stimulating approach to Soviet studies.

Author : Thomas Lahusen,Peter H. Solomon
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Former Soviet republics
ISBN : 9783825806408

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What is Soviet Now? by Thomas Lahusen,Peter H. Solomon Pdf

Economists and political scientists wrestle with the challenges faced by Russian officials and public alike in adapting to a market economy and democracy, including the fragility of property rights and elections still rooted in old institutional structures. This book examines the reforms of health and welfare, and the hierarchy of privilege and access, and consider how Putin's statist approach to mythmaking compares to that of previous Soviet and post-Soviet regimes. Historians and anthropologists explore the issue of nostalgia, gender, punishment, belief, and how history itself is being created and perceived today. The book concludes with a journey through the ruined landscape of real socialism.

Author : Alvin Ward Gouldner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039481176

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The Two Marxisms by Alvin Ward Gouldner Pdf

In this final volume of the trilogy, Gouldner focuses on the tensions between "scientific Marxism" with its search for lawful determination and "critical Marxism" with its philosophy of practice and its art of critique.