The Social Legacy of Communism

Current work on the transition from communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union has emphasized the 'polity' and the 'economy'; this book analyzes the 'society', and thereby helps fill an important gap in the literature. It endeavors to summarize developments and impose some coherence on the subject by treating four basic areas: ethnic issues, deviance and health, social cleavages, and labor and elitism.

List of figures and tables

ix

(4)

Acknowledgments

xiii

1 Introduction: The social legacies and the aftermath of communism

1

(30)

James R. Millar

Sharon L. Wolchik

PART I. ETHNIC ISSUES

31

(80)

2 Making up for lost choice: the shaping of ethnic identity in post-Soviet states

31

(25)

Peter Juviler

3 From ethnicity to nationalism: turmoil in the Russian mini-empire

56

(33)

Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

4 Ethnicity, nationalism, and the communist legacy in Eastern Europe

89

(22)

Maria N. Todorova

PART II. DEVIANCE AND HEALTH

111

(118)

5 The social construction of deviance and the transition from communist rule

111

(19)

Andrea Stevenson Sanjian

6 Crime and the collapse of the Soviet state

130

(19)

Louise Shelley

7 Drug abuse in Central and Eastern Europe

149

(29)

John M. Kramer

8 Postcommunist medicine: morbidity, mortality, and the deteriorating health situation

178

(18)

Mark G. Field

9 Health and mortality in Central and Eastern Europe: retrospect and prospect

196

(33)

Nicholas Eberstadt

PART III. SOCIAL CLEAVAGES

229

(80)

10 Communism's legacy and Russian youth

229

(23)

Richard B. Dobson

11 The social legacy of communism: women, children, and the feminization of poverty

252

(19)

Gail Kligman

12 The religious renaissance in the Soviet Union and its successor states

271

(38)

David E. Powell

PART IV. LABOR AND ELITISM

309

(77)

13 Elitism in postcommunist Russia: some interim comments

309

(20)

Mervyn Matthews

14 Labor politics in postcommunist Russia: a preliminary assessment

329

(25)

Walter D. Connor

15 Unemployment in the former Soviet Union

354

(25)

William Moskoff

16 Conclusion: Reflections on the social legacy of communism

379

(7)

Joseph S. Berliner

About the authors

386

(3)

Index

389

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