Winners and Losers on the Russian Road to Capitalism

by Silverman,Bertram

• ISBN13: 9781563247040
• ISBN10: 1563247046
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-12-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Why are so many Russians ambivalent about the rapid economic and political changes they have been experiencing over the past decade? To answer that question, this book examines the unequal distribution of the costs and benefits of reform in Russia, its impact on the socioeconomic structure of the population, and the ways in which these changes violate social perceptions of equity and fairness.

Among the major issues examined in this context are
-- the emergence of the "new poor";
-- the changing economic and social status of women;
-- the highly differentiated impact of marketization on various sectors of the working class;
-- the social sources of recruitment of Russia's new entrepreneurial class and business elite.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	ix	(4)
Preface	xiii
1. Free Market Ideology and the Specter of Inequality	3	(11)
2. Critical Responses to Radical Reform	14	(23)
3. The Rise of Mass Poverty	37	(19)
4. A Question of Difference: Women as Losers	56	(24)
5. Wage-Earners: Winners and Losers	80	(23)
6. A New Capitalist Class: Entrepreneurs and the Economic Elite	103	(25)
7. Why No Social Democracy in Russia?	128	(11)
Notes	139	(16)
Index	155