Rasell, Michael

Disability in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union: history, policy and everyday life

by Rasell, Michael, I͡Arskai͡a-Smirnova, Elena

fromBASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies

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There are over thirty million disabled people in Russia and Eastern Europe, yet their voices are rarely heard in scholarly studies of life and well-being in the region. This book brings together new research by internationally recognised local and non-native scholars in a range …

This thesis uses an area studies approach to examine the complex relationship between citizenship, disability and welfare provision. It does so through a bottom-up analysis of how the state welfare system affects the everyday lives of physically disabled adults in contemporary R…