Democratization in Russia Under Gorbachev, 1985-91
Subtitle: The Birth of a Voluntary Sector
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 12, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780312219932
Subjects: Social work; Public Welfare Work; Russia - History - 1917 To 1991; History; Politics / Current Events; History: World; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Russia; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Government - International; Political Ideologies - Democracy; History-Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Political Science / Democracy; Political Science-Government - International; Pressure groups; Associations, institutions, et; Associations, institutions, etc.; Charities; Soviet Union; Voluntarism
Description: 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.