Applying modern econometrics to 1989-1998 survey data collected in Taganrog, finds that gender segregation is quite common - contrary to the notorious claim that, since the existence of the Soviet Union, men and women enjoy equal rights and that manual workers are favoured over …
The word blat refers to the system of informal contacts and personal networks which was used to obtain goods and services under the rationing which characterised Soviet Russia. Alena Ledeneva's book is the first to analyse blat in all its historical, socio-economic and cultural …
Textbook and reference book on petroleum and the petroleum industry - covers industrial structure trends (incl. The USSR), geologycal and technical aspects, production costs, techniques used in drilling and offshore installations, manufacturing processes and marketing of petrole…
Drawing on newly declassified files, this is the story of how a book forbidden in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout paid a visit to Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak.…
A moment in history, the collapse of the Soviet empire, is examined, along with the restoration of truth, the truth about the brutal Soviet past and the bleak Soviet present.
Monograph on the evolution of trade unions in the USSR - discusses historical and contemporary development, focusing on union labour policy and political participation, labour relations, freedom of association, workers participation, international relations, activities connected…
4e de couv.: This fascinating and deeply researched book examines how, beginning under Khrushchev in 1953, a generation of Soviet citizens moved from the overcrowded communal dwellings of the Stalin era to modern single-family apartments, later dubbed khrushchevka. Arguing that …
