Soviet Society Under Gorbachev: Current Trends and the Prospects for Change

ISBN-13: 9780873324434 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 288 str.

Maurice Friedberg; Heyward Isham; Heyward Isham

Opis

The essays in this volume assess key aspects of Soviet society and social policy under Gorbachev. It provides a survey of Soviet family problems and demographic change, economic and labour policy, the alcohol problem, nationality policy, and trends in culture and communications.

Spis treści

Artioles and symposia on major controversial social issues: integration and civil rights; President Clinton's recent race initiative; poverty; education; the environment; democratic participation; disability rights; corporate welfare; and others. The range of contributors is wide, and includes Julian Bond, Herbert Gans, James Loewen, Jonathan Kozol, Manning Marable, Howard Zinn, Benjamin DeMott, Frances Fox Piven, and Marian Wright Edelman.

O autorze

Maurice Friedberg, Heyward Isham,