| Description |
ix, 337 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The John M. Olin critical issues series
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Politics and social problems / Paul Hollander -- Ethnic differentiation and political communication / Ellen Mickiewicz -- Pollution in the Soviet Union : the growth of environmentalism and its consequences / Marshall I. Goldman -- Atomic culture in the USSR : before and after Chernobyl / Paul R. Josephson -- Soviet health problems and the convergence hypothesis / Mark G. Field -- Drug abuse in the USSR / John M. Kramer -- Drinking and alcohol abuse in the USSR in the 1980s / Vladimir G. Treml -- Equality of opportunity / Walter D. Connor -- Perestroika and the rebirth of charity / Mervyn Matthews -- Aging and the elderly / David E. Powell -- No end of a problem : perestroika for the family ? / Peter H. Juviler -- Problems in the schools / Anthony Jones -- Youth problems in the Soviet Union / Richard B. Dobson -- Crime in the Soviet Union / Louise I. Shelley -- Prostituiton, the press, and agenda-building in the Soviet policy process / Andrea Stevenson Sanjian -- Adapting to new technologies / Loren Graham. |
| Subject |
Social problems.
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Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1970-1991.
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Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991.
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| Added Author |
Jones, Anthony, 1940-
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Connor, Walter D.
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Powell, David E.
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| ISBN |
0813308763 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0813376904 (alk. paper) |
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