book chapter
The society and its environment
Russia: a country study • Washington, D.c. • Published In 1996 • Pages: 237-294
By: Curtis, Glenn E. (Glenn Eldon), Leighton, Marian Kirsch.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study discusses the effects on Russian society of the disappearance of government-provided welfare services and social safety net programs during the country’s promised transition from decades of communist dictatorship and top-down economic management to Western-style democracy and a market-driven economy. The focus is on the uneven impact on various segments of the population. Stay-at-home mothers and unskilled workers were negatively impacted as they lost government handouts, free health care, factory-owned houses, and job security. High-income professionals and entrepreneurs benefitted from emerging economic opportunities, including increased foreign investment in private enterprises and government policy reforms regarding home ownership and population migration.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Morbidity
- Income and demand
- Labor supply and employment
- Standard of living
- Gender status
- Public welfare
- Poverty
- Hospitals and clinics
- Public health and sanitation
- Medical care
- Education system
- Educational theory and methods
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Russians
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2019
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1985-1996
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Russia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Glen E. Curtis and Marian Leighton
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 294a-294d)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 97007563
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Russia (Federation)--Social conditions.