1st Edition

Social Capital and Social Cohesion in Post-Soviet Russia

By Judyth L. Twigg, Kate Schecter Copyright 2003
    344 Pages
    by Routledge

    344 Pages
    by Routledge

    This work shows that the collapse of socialist employment and social service systems - and of the USSR itself - has had profoundly damaging effects, manifested in dislocation and homelessness, ethnic strife, family breakdown, declining life expectancy, and soaring rates of violence and crime.

    This survey of the changes in education and socialization in the former USSR examines the institutions that are shaping the first post-Soviet generation. Chapters provide reports on such questions as diversification and the development of independent schools, curriculum reform and democratization.

    Biography

    Judyth L. Twigg, Kate Schecter