Soviet Society Under Perestroika / Edition 1

by David Lane

Overview

This is an up-to-the-minute revised edition of a text which, since its publication in 1990, has been extremely influential. The great changes of the past 18 months have entailed a comprehensive updating of the book. This edition takes account of new developments that include the independence of the Baltic states and the treaty which sparked 1991's attempted coup.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415076005
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/05/1992
Series:	Soviet Studies
Edition description:	Completely Revised
Pages:	458
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.93(d)
Lexile:	1300L (what's this?)

About the Author

David Lane is currently Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and University Lecturer in Sociology. Previously he was Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham and a member of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies there. He was a doctoral student at the University of Oxford and has been on the faculty of the University of Essex. He has also been a visiting professor at Cornell University and Graz University (Austria) and has held short-term research grants at the Kennan Institute in Washington, D.C. He has travelled in all the Eastern European countries (except Albania), and has visited the USSR on more than twenty occasions. Professor Lane’s publications include Politics and Society in the USSR (1970) and most recently Soviet Labour and the Ethic of Communism: Employment and the Labour Process in the USSR (1987) and Political Power and Elites in the USSR (1988).

Table of Contents

Preface Chapter 1 CHANGING CONCEPTIONS OF SOVIET SOCIETY Part One THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK Chapter 2 KHOZRASCHET: MANAGING THE ECONOMY Chapter 3 DEMOKRATIZATSIYA: FROM PARTOCRACY TO PRESIDENCY Chapter 4 PLYURALIZM: TOWARD CIVIL SOCIETY? Part Two SOCIAL CLASSES AND GROUPS Chapter 5 THE CHANGING SOCIAL STRUCTURE Chapter 6 NATIONALITIES AND ETHNIC RELATIONS Chapter 7 REPRODUCING SOCIETY: GENDER, FAMILY, AND GENERATIONS Part Three SOCIAL CONTROL Chapter 8 FORMING THE SOVIET PERSON: EDUCATION, SOCIALIST RITUAL, AND TRADITION Chapter 9 GLASNOST’: THE MASS MEDIA Chapter 10 THE STATE OF WELFARE: PENSIONS AND THE AGED, HOUSING, AND HEALTH Part Four CONCLUSIONS Chapter 11 PERESTROIKA: NEW BEGINNINGS

Editorial Reviews

From a review of the previous edition - ‘[Lane's] new book offers an updating of his account of the main features of the social structure provided in the two earlier versions of his well-known and admired student texts...it will occupy the same place as its predecessors as a mainstay of degree courses on Soviet society.' - Soviet Studies

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