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Work on the transition from communism in Eastern Europe and the
Soviet Union has emphasized the 'polity' and the 'economy'; this
book analyzes the 'society', and thereby helps fill an important
gap in the literature. It endeavors to summarize developments and
impose some coherence on the subject by treating four basic areas:
ethnic issues, deviance and health, social cleavages, and labor and
elitism.
Work on the transition from communism in Eastern Europe and the
Soviet Union has emphasized the 'polity' and the 'economy'; this
book analyzes the 'society', and thereby helps fill an important
gap in the literature. It endeavors to summarize developments and
impose some coherence on the subject by treating four basic areas:
ethnic issues, deviance and health, social cleavages, and labor and
elitism.
Based on the first comprehensive study of life in the USSR since
the Harvard Project some 33 years ago, Politics, Work, and Daily
Life in the USSR is designed to illustrate how the Soviet social
system really works and how the Soviet people cope with it. Taken
as a whole, the book describes the sources of support and
alienation in the Soviet urban population during the late 1970s,
discussing such issues as Soviet political beliefs, ethnic
relations, economic inequality, quality of life, and perceptions of
social status. The essays contained analyze the variations in
attitudes and behavior reflected in the findings of the Soviet
Interview Project, a 5-year, 7.5 million investigation of
contemporary daily life in the USSR. Among these findings,
generational differences and differential education attainment are
found to be the most significant underlying determinants of the
opinions on, and approaches to, the different issues; the young,
the educated and the well-paid, that is, the "best and the
brightest" of Soviet society, prove to be the most critical and
least satisfied with life in the Soviet Union. This comprehensive
investigation involved interviewing thousands of recent emigrants
from the USSR to the United States as a means of learning about
their former day-to-day living. These individuals provided for a
large volume of first-hand reports. Some aspects of this survey
dealt with areas the Soviets themselves had never investigated, so
the data were not, and still are not, available even in unpublished
Soviet sources.
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