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From Follett
Introduction: Democracy, gender and citizenship in post-communist Russia -- part 1. Discourses of the early transition: liberalism, feminism, and the market in the 1990s. Welfare and social justice in the USSR's final years -- Liberalism and social reform in the early transition -- Gender equality, individual empowerment, and pluralism -- part 2. Opposition politics, nationalism, and the search for authenticity, 1995-2004. Social welfare in the mid-transition, 1995-2000 -- The debate on public morality -- The rediscovery of the child -- part 3. Statism and democratic reversal under Putin: policies for a wayward society, 2000-2008. Introduction to part 3 -- Pronatalism and family politics under Putin's presidency -- Gender and the state in debates on conscription -- part 4. Steps towards a post-Putin social contract. Introduction to part 4: the wayward society reaches maturity -- Social justice and social inclusion, 2005-2011 -- Conclusion.;Includes bibliographical references (pages 248) and index.
From the Publisher
Through compelling and insightful analysis of the Russian case, this book explores the role that social welfare plays in regime transitions. It examines the role that gender and social welfare has played in Russia's post-communist political evolution from Yeltsin's assumption of the presidency to Putin's return for a third term as president in 2012