Democratization in Russia under Gorbachev, 1985-91 : the birth of a volunatry sector / Anne White
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- 1387706
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- White, Anne, 1959-
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- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hamsphire : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999
- ix, 260 p. ; 23 cm.
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- 0312219938
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Gorbachev's perestroika transformed Soviet society and politics. One of the most striking aspects of that transformation was the emergence of thousands of pressure groups, operating to a large extent outside communist party control. This book, the first on the subject, examines the most numerous of those groups: charities and self-help organizations which strove to achieve a more equitable deal for disabled people, veterans of the Afghan war, army conscripts, large families and other groups whose problems had been largely ignored by the Soviet regime.
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- 1. Demokratizatsiya and the Voluntary Sector
- 2. 1985: the State in Crisis
- 3. 1985: Society in Crisis
- 4. Perestroika and the Immediate Causes of the Voluntary Sector's Emergence
- 5. Charities
- 6. Self-Help Organizations
- 7. The Communist Response
- 8. Building Political and Civil Society
- 9. Conclusions and Epilogue.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-243) and index.
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