Winners and Losers on the Russian Road to Capitalism

by Bertram Silverman, Murray Yanowitch

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781315481111
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/25/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Bertram Silverman and Murray Yanowitch

Table of Contents

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?

Editorial Reviews

Packs in a wide range of statistical and survey data. . .[on] the key issues of the social impact of transition. . .Deserves to be read and will be on many reading lists.

Europe-Asia Studies

[The authors] tackle the issues of economic transition in post-Soviet Russia from a different perspective from most current writers on this subject. . .and warn that although few in modern Russia would ever wish to return to pre-perestroika communism, there is a growing danger of authoritarianism if social issues continue to be given a low priority.

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