Democratization in Russia under Gorbachev, 1985–91

The Birth of a Voluntary Sector

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Anne White

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Self-help organizations and charities were the most numerous, but least-studied of pressure groups to emerge during perestroika . This book examines the social exclusion experienced before 1985 by non-working citizens, studies the pre-1985 disabled people's movement and its numerous unofficial, but non-dissident organizations, discusses why the Gorbachev leadership adopted the non-Soviet concept of 'charity', analyses the failure of local authorities after 1985 to stave off pluralism and defeat the voluntary organizations, and assesses how successfully the latter built the foundations of a civil society.

Author Biography:

ANNE WHITE is Lecturer in Russian, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath. She is the author of De-Stalinization and the House of Culture: Declining State Control over Leisure in the USSR, Poland and Hungary, 1953-1989, and number of articles on the Russian.

Release date Australia

July 9th, 1999

Author

Anne White

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

IX, 260 p.

Pages

260

Dimensions

140x216x24

ISBN-13

9780312219932

Product ID

5147156

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