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Shocking Mother Russia : democratization, social rights, and pension reform in Russia, 1990-2001 / Andrea Chandler.
LIBRA HD7197.2 .C43 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chandler, Andrea M., 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Old age pensions--Russia (Federation).
- Old age pensions.
- Democratization--Russia (Federation).
- Democratization.
- Russia (Federation).
- Social rights--Russia (Federation).
- Social rights.
- Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2004.
- Contents:
- 1 Russia's Social Welfare Crisis in Theoretical Perspective 3
- 2 The Elderly in a Revolutionary Society: The Soviet Pension System, 1917-1956 24
- 3 Pensions and the Pressures of Democratization in the USSR under Perestroika, 1986-1990 44
- 4 The Origins of Post-Communist Russia's Pension Crisis, 1990-1993 60
- 5 Institutional Structure of the Russian Pension System, 1992-2001 72
- 6 The Politics of Pensions and the Evolution of Russian Parliamentarism, 1994-1999 87
- 7 Russian Laws on Old-Age Pensions and Veterans' Rights: Contending Understandings of Social Justice 109
- 8 The Evolution of Pension Reform in Russia, 1995-2001 124
- Appendix C Disputes over Finances 173.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-238) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0802089305
- OCLC:
- 55146481
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