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What did it mean to be a Soviet citizen in the 1970s and 1980s? How
can we explain the liberalization that preceded the collapse of the
USSR? This period in Soviet history is often depicted as stagnant
with stultified institutions and the oppression of socialist
citizens. However, the socialist state was not simply an oppressive
institution that dictated how to live and what to think-it also
responded to and was shaped by individuals' needs. In Soviet
Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964-85, Neringa Klumbyte and
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova bring together scholarship examining the
social and cultural life of the USSR and Eastern Europe from 1964
to 1985. This interdisciplinary and comparative study explores
topics such as the Soviet middle class, individualism, sexuality,
health, late-socialist ethics, and civic participation. Examining
this often overlooked era provides the historical context for all
post-socialist political, economic, and social developments.
Demonstrating the relevance of theory to political and policy
debates and practice, this lively and accessible second edition
helps students to grasp the real-life implications of social policy
theory. It considers contemporary shifts in welfare ideologies in
the context of global austerity and the UK Coalition and
Conservative governments (2010 onwards). With a new chapter
focusing on critical debates about disability, sexuality and the
environment, this textbook also includes fresh reflections on
migration, social security conditionality, resilience, social
justice and human rights. Key features include: ⢠real-life
examples from UK and international politics and policy to explain
and illuminate the significance of social policy theory; ⢠key
questions for student reflection and engagement; ⢠and bulleted
chapter summaries and annotated further readings at the end of
every chapter. This new edition is a dynamic, engaging and valuable
introduction to the key theoretical perspectives and concepts
deployed in social policy.
This book explores aspects of the social and cultural history of
nuclear Britain in the Cold War era (1945â1991) and contributes
to a more multivalent exploration of the consequences of nuclear
choices which are too often left unacknowledged by historians of
post-war Britain. In the years after 1945, the British government
mobilised money, scientific knowledge, people and
militaryâindustrial capacity to create both an independent
nuclear deterrent and the generation of electricity through nuclear
reactors. This expensive and vast âtechnopoliticalâ project,
mostly top-secret and run by small sub-committees within
government, was central to broader Cold War strategy and policy.
Recent attempts to map the resulting social and cultural history of
these militaryâindustrial policy decisions suggest that nuclear
mobilisation had far-reaching consequences for British life. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of Contemporary British History.
Moves to assist or protect the vulnerable now play a crucial role
in welfare and criminal justice processes. This distinctive book
draws on in-depth research with marginalised young people and the
professionals who support them to explore the implications of a
'vulnerability zeitgeist', asking how far the rise of vulnerability
serves the interests of those who are most disadvantaged.
What did it mean to be a Soviet citizen in the 1970s and 1980s? How
can we explain the liberalization that preceded the collapse of the
USSR? This period in Soviet history is often depicted as stagnant
with stultified institutions and the oppression of socialist
citizens. However, the socialist state was not simply an oppressive
institution that dictated how to live and what to think-it also
responded to and was shaped by individuals' needs. In Soviet
Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964-85, Neringa Klumbyte and
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova bring together scholarship examining the
social and cultural life of the USSR and Eastern Europe from 1964
to 1985. This interdisciplinary and comparative study explores
topics such as the Soviet middle class, individualism, sexuality,
health, late-socialist ethics, and civic participation. Examining
this often overlooked era provides the historical context for all
post-socialist political, economic, and social developments.
The notion of 'vulnerability' is now a prominent motif in social
policy in the UK and beyond, with important implications for those
deemed 'vulnerable'. Yet the effects of recalibrating welfare and
criminal justice processes on the basis of vulnerability often
escape attention. This distinctive book draws together lived
experiences of vulnerability with academic and practical
applications of the concept, exploring the repercussions of a
'vulnerability zeitgeist' in UK policy and practice. Through a
focus on the voices and perspectives of 'vulnerable' young people
and the professionals who support them, it questions how far the
rise of vulnerability serves the interests of disadvantaged
citizens. Illuminating where support shades into more controlling
practices, the book is important reading for scholars, students and
policy-makers interested in exclusion, precariousness, deviance and
youth.
This book explores aspects of the social and cultural history of
nuclear Britain in the Cold War era (1945-1991) and contributes to
a more multivalent exploration of the consequences of nuclear
choices which are too often left unacknowledged by historians of
post-war Britain. In the years after 1945, the British government
mobilised money, scientific knowledge, people and
military-industrial capacity to create both an independent nuclear
deterrent and the generation of electricity through nuclear
reactors. This expensive and vast 'technopolitical' project, mostly
top-secret and run by small sub-committees within government, was
central to broader Cold War strategy and policy. Recent attempts to
map the resulting social and cultural history of these
military-industrial policy decisions suggest that nuclear
mobilisation had far-reaching consequences for British life. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of Contemporary British History.
Starters and plenaries are now an essential part of all lessons and
this highly practical, bestselling book provides busy secondary
teachers with 50 creative activities to use in the classroom. The
tasks will help ensure the first five minutes of any lesson are a
time for motivation, energy and forward thinking and will help
students to reflect on, and embed their learning at the end. From
game show inspired quizzes to bingo and dominoes, Kate Brown's
wealth of original ideas have been tried and tested by secondary
teachers and can be adapted to use in any subject. Concise
explanations and cross-curricular examples make this book an
accessible and time saving resource for all secondary teachers
looking to inject some new life and enthusiasm into their lessons.
Three short stories, each focusing on the relationship between
mother and child. 'The Piper Man' is structured around the legend
of The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Marie Nicholls is a single mother
bringing up her two boys, who are desperately missing their father.
When a strange man arrives on their street, they are inexplicably
drawn to him, much to Marie's horror. 'The Cherry Tree' tells the
story of a musician, who finds her career at odds with being a
mother, while 'Matryoshka' follows a woman's struggle with grief
and loss following the death of her baby.
This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and Poland, a
region where, in 1925, people identified as Poles, Germans, Jews,
Ukrainians, and Russians lived side by side. Over the next three
decades, this mosaic of cultures was modernized and homogenized out
of existence by the ruling might of the Soviet Union, then Nazi
Germany, and finally, Polish and Ukrainian nationalism. By the
1950s, this "no place" emerged as a Ukrainian heartland, and the
fertile mix of peoples that defined the region was destroyed.
Brown's study is grounded in the life of the village and shtetl, in
the personalities and small histories of everyday life in this
area. In impressive detail, she documents how these regimes,
bureaucratically and then violently, separated, named, and
regimented this intricate community into distinct ethnic groups.
Drawing on recently opened archives, ethnography, and oral
interviews that were unavailable a decade ago, "A Biography of No
Place" reveals Stalinist and Nazi history from the perspective of
the remote borderlands, thus bringing the periphery to the center
of history. Brown argues that repressive national policies grew not
out of chauvinist or racist ideas, but the very instruments of
modern governance - the census, map, and progressive social
programs - first employed by Bolshevik reformers in the western
borderlands. We are given, in short, an intimate portrait of the
ethnic purification that has marked all of Europe, as well as a
glimpse at the margins of twentieth century "progress." Kate Brown
is Assistant Professor of History at University of Maryland,
Baltimore County.
While many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have
been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of
the great plutonium disasters of the United States and the Soviet
Union. In Plutopia, Brown draws on official records and dozens of
interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland,
Washington and Ozersk, Russia-the first two cities in the world to
produce plutonium. To contain secrets, American and Soviet leaders
created plutopias--communities of nuclear families living in
highly-subsidized, limited-access atomic cities. Fully employed and
medically monitored, the residents of Richland and Ozersk enjoyed
all the pleasures of consumer society, while nearby, migrants,
prisoners, and soldiers were banned from plutopia--they lived in
temporary "staging grounds" and often performed the most dangerous
work at the plant. Brown shows that the plants' segregation of
permanent and temporary workers and of nuclear and non-nuclear
zones created a bubble of immunity, where dumps and accidents were
glossed over and plant managers freely embezzled and polluted. In
four decades, the Hanford plant near Richland and the Maiak plant
near Ozersk each issued at least 200 million curies of radioactive
isotopes into the surrounding environment--equaling four
Chernobyls--laying waste to hundreds of square miles and
contaminating rivers, fields, forests, and food supplies. Because
of the decades of secrecy, downwind and downriver neighbors of the
plutonium plants had difficulty proving what they suspected, that
the rash of illnesses, cancers, and birth defects in their
communities were caused by the plants' radioactive emissions.
Plutopia was successful because in its zoned-off isolation it
appeared to deliver the promises of the American dream and Soviet
communism; in reality, it concealed disasters that remain highly
unstable and threatening today. An untold and profoundly important
piece of Cold War history, Plutopia invites readers to consider the
nuclear footprint left by the arms race and the enormous price of
paying for it.
"Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?" asks the opening
chapter of Kate Brown's surprising and unusual journey into the
histories of places on the margins, overlooked or erased. In turns
out that a ruined mining town in Kazakhstan and Butte, Montana -
America's largest environmental Superfund site - have much more in
common than one would think thanks to similarities in climate,
hucksterism, and the perseverance of their few hardy inhabitants.
Taking readers to these and other unlikely locales, Dispatches from
Dystopia delves into the very human and sometimes very fraught ways
we come to understand a particular place, its people, and its
history. In Dispatches from Dystopia, Brown wanders the Chernobyl
Zone of Alienation, first on the Internet and then in person, to
figure out which version - the real or the virtual - was the actual
forgery. She also takes us to the basement of a hotel in Seattle to
examine the personal possessions left in storage by
Japanese-Americans on their way to internment camps in 1942. In
Uman, Ukraine, we hide with Brown in a tree in order to witness the
male-only annual Rosh Hashanah celebration of Hasidic Jews. In the
Russian southern Urals, she speaks with the citizens of the small
city of Kyshtym, where invisible radioactive pollutants have
mysteriously blighted lives. Finally, Brown returns home to Elgin,
Illinois, in the midwestern industrial rust belt to investigate the
rise of "rustalgia" and how her formative experiences have inspired
her obsession with modernist wastelands. Dispatches from Dystopia
powerfully and movingly narrates the histories of locales that have
been silenced, broken, or contaminated. In telling these previously
unknown stories, Brown examines the making and unmaking of place,
and the lives of the people who remain in the fragile landscapes
that are left behind.
After the detonation of FANDEMONIUM the gods-as-pop-stars of THE
WICKED + THE DIVINE try living in the long dark shadow. Team WicDiv
are joined by a stellar cast of guest artists to put the spotlight
of each of the gods. The multiple Eisner-award nominated series
continues in the only way it knows how: darker, weirder, faster.
Don't worry. It's going to be okay.
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