Social Change and Social Issues in the Former USSR [Hardcover]

Perestroika has led to more openness than ever before about Soviet social problems, and it has accelerated the processes of demographic and social change. In this collection a group of leading British, European and North American specialists analyse the central features of a changing society, concentrating upon mortality patterns in the population itself and upon the social problems that have been brought to the fore by glasnost, such as drugs and alcohol abuse.General Editor's Introduction - Editor's Preface - Notes on the Contributors - The Causes and Consequences of Recent Legislative Changes in Soviet Housing Policy; G.Andrusz - The Soviet Union's New Cooperatives: Goals and Accomplishments; L.Ohlsson - Drug Abuse in the USSR; J.M.Kramer - Mortality Patterns in the USSR and Causes of Death: Political Unity and Regional Differentials; A.Blum - The Battle Continues: Gorbachev's Anti-Alcohol Policies; W.Joyce - Sex Differentials in Mortality in the Soviet Union; W.W.Kingkade & E.E.Arriaga - Disabled 'Afgantsy': Fighters for a Better Deal; J.Riordan - Index