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The Social Structure of the USSR
This is a study of "karayuki-san", impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s. It follows the life of one prostitute, Osaki, who is persuaded as a child of ten to accept cleaning work in Borneo and then forced to work as a prostitute in a brothel.
The Inequality of Pay
Oxford University Press 1979-04-01, 1979. Paperback. Book Condition: Used - Very Good. USED PAPERBACK; VERY GOOD CONDITION;; PUBLISHED IN 1979; CLEAN TIGHT TEXT WITH NORMAL READING WEAR TO COVER; NAME TO FRONT FACING PAGE.
Soviet Sociology
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Soviet Socialism
Soviet Socialism (1987) is based on the author’s specialized knowledge of many aspects of Soviet politics, including local government, the Communist Party and the Soviet intelligentsia. Written originally after the death of Brezhnev, in the Andropov-Chernenko interregnum, the essays were revised to take account of the accession to power of Mikhail Gorbachev, and they cover a selection of interrelated themes drawn from Soviet politics and society. The detached view the author takes of the Soviet state presents a new and stimulating approach to Soviet studies.
Work in the Soviet Union
Research report on work attitudes and job satisfaction in the USSR - describes the background e.g. Intellectual and social planning, the heritage of Marxism etc. And impact on work performance esp. Among youth, and demographic aspects incl. Sex, age, educational level; discusses the response to work discontent e.g. Changes in schooling, work organization, quality of working life, etc.; examines management attitude, the degree of workers participation, election of managers, changes in job design and wage payment system through work brigades.
Soviet Baby Boomers
Soviet Baby Boomers traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the life stories of the country's first post-World War II, Cold War generation.
Survey Research and Public Attitudes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
Survey Research and Public Attitudes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union is a collection of research studies the survey's the opinions of demographics from Eastern Europe on socialists systems. The title analyzes the development of survey research in the socialist systems of Eastern Europe to provide an overview of the nature of socialist countries. The territories covered in the selection are Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Germany Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. The book will be of great interest to sociologists, political scientists, economists, and behavioral scientists.
Soviet Education Under Scrutiny
Selected papers from the Third World Congress for Soviet & East European Studies, Washington, D.C., 1985.
Club Red
The Bolsheviks took power in Russia 1917 armed with an ideology centered on the power of the worker. From the beginning, however, Soviet leaders also realized the need for rest and leisure within the new proletarian society and over subsequent decades struggled to reconcile the concept of leisure with the doctrine of communism, addressing such fundamental concerns as what the purpose of leisure should be in a workers' state and how socialist vacations should differ from those enjoyed by the capitalist bourgeoisie.In Club Red, Diane P. Koenker offers a sweeping and insightful history of Soviet vacationing and tourism from the Revolution through perestroika. She shows that from the outset, the...
The Making of the Soviet Citizen
The Making of the Soviet Citizen (1987) examines the distinctive feature of Soviet education – the crucial importance it gives to the formation of a new type of person, the model socialist citizen. Success in this endeavour is regarded as essential for the creation of the material and spiritual bases of communism, and Soviet educational establishments accordingly devoted immense effort and resources to a programme of character building – vospitanie, moral, social and political development. This collection brings together the results of research devoted to character formation and civic training in Soviet education. The contributors present detailed analyses of the aims and methods of various major components of the vospitanie process and examine the development of their implementation.
