Postcommunist Welfare States: Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe

by Linda J. Cook

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In the early 1990s, the countries of the former Soviet Bloc faced an urgent need to reform the systems by which they delivered broad, basic social welfare to their citizens. Inherited systems were inefficient and financially unsustainable. Linda J. Cook here explores the politics and policy of social welfare from 1990 to 2004 in the Russian Federation, Poland, Hungary, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.

Most of these countries, she shows, tried to...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0801479002

ISBN13:9780801479007

Release Date:August 2013

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.88 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Communism & Socialism Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Russian & Former Soviet Union

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