The Social Legacy of Communism

by Edited by James R. Millar , Sharon L. Wolchik

• ISBN13: 9780521467483
• ISBN10: 0521467489
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-08-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Current work on the transition from communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union has emphasized the 'polity' and the 'economy'; this book analyzes the 'society', and thereby helps fill an important gap in the literature. It endeavors to summarize developments and impose some coherence on the subject by treating four basic areas: ethnic issues, deviance and health, social cleavages, and labor and elitism.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	ix	(4)
Acknowledgments	xiii
1 Introduction: The social legacies and the aftermath of communism	1	(30)
James R. Millar
Sharon L. Wolchik
PART I. ETHNIC ISSUES	31	(80)
2 Making up for lost choice: the shaping of ethnic identity in post-Soviet states	31	(25)
Peter Juviler
3 From ethnicity to nationalism: turmoil in the Russian mini-empire	56	(33)
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
4 Ethnicity, nationalism, and the communist legacy in Eastern Europe	89	(22)
Maria N. Todorova
PART II. DEVIANCE AND HEALTH	111	(118)
5 The social construction of deviance and the transition from communist rule	111	(19)
Andrea Stevenson Sanjian
6 Crime and the collapse of the Soviet state	130	(19)
Louise Shelley
7 Drug abuse in Central and Eastern Europe	149	(29)
John M. Kramer
8 Postcommunist medicine: morbidity, mortality, and the deteriorating health situation	178	(18)
Mark G. Field
9 Health and mortality in Central and Eastern Europe: retrospect and prospect	196	(33)
Nicholas Eberstadt
PART III. SOCIAL CLEAVAGES	229	(80)
10 Communism's legacy and Russian youth	229	(23)
Richard B. Dobson
11 The social legacy of communism: women, children, and the feminization of poverty	252	(19)
Gail Kligman
12 The religious renaissance in the Soviet Union and its successor states	271	(38)
David E. Powell
PART IV. LABOR AND ELITISM	309	(77)
13 Elitism in postcommunist Russia: some interim comments	309	(20)
Mervyn Matthews
14 Labor politics in postcommunist Russia: a preliminary assessment	329	(25)
Walter D. Connor
15 Unemployment in the former Soviet Union	354	(25)
William Moskoff
16 Conclusion: Reflections on the social legacy of communism	379	(7)
Joseph S. Berliner
About the authors	386	(3)
Index	389