New Rich, New Poor, New Russia: Winners and Losers on the Russian Road to Capitalism

ISBN-13: 9781563247057 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 176 str.

Bertram Silverman; Murray Yanowitch

Opis

Aiming to explain many Russians' ambivalence to recent changes, this work examines the unequal distribution of the costs and benefits of reform, its impact on the socioeconomic structure of the population, and the ways in which these changes violate social perceptions of equity and fairness.

Spis treści

1. Free Market Ideology and the Specter of Inequality 2. Critical Responses to Radical Reform 3. The Rise of Mass Poverty 4. A Question of Difference: Women as Losers 5. Wage-Earners: Winners and Losers 6. A New Capitalist Class: Entrepreneurs and the Economic Elite 7. Why No Social Democracy in Russia?