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First published in 1980, Socialism, Social Welfare and the Soviet
Union examines the views of Marx, Engels and Lenin on what
constitutes a socialist form of provision of social security,
income, education, health and housing. The authors discuss the
implementation of these ideas in the Soviet Union since the 1917
Revolution in the context of economic and political development,
and describe the social services in the Soviet Union, assessing the
extent to which the original ideas have been matched by reality.
They also briefly survey the views of several East European
academic writers on social policy, outlining some distinctive
features of social policy in the Eastern bloc. The authors' general
conclusion is that the Soviet Union has made great progress in
social policy provision; from their research and from their visits
in the course of writing this book, they show that the social
services of the Soviet Union are as good as and, in some ways, more
comprehensive than those of Western Europe. Equally important is
their conclusion that a society in which the means of production
and distribution are nationalised, and which makes a full provision
of social services is not necessarily a socialist society. This
book will appeal to students of sociology, political science and
area studies.
Is emotional truth a damaging literary and cultural ideal? The
Artifice of Affect proposes that valuing affective authenticity
risks creating a homogenized self, encouraged to comply only with
accepted moral beliefs. Similarly, when emotional truth is made the
primary value of literature, literary texts too often become agents
of conformity. Nowhere is this risk explored more fully than in a
range of American realist texts from the Cold War to the twentieth
century's end. For the works of writers such as James Baldwin, Saul
Bellow, John Cheever, Kathleen Collins, Paula Fox, Ralph Ellison,
or Richard Yates, formulate trenchant critiques of true feeling's
aesthetic and social imperatives. The arguments at the heart of
this book aim to re-frame emotional processes as visceral
constructions, which should not be held to the standards of static
ideals of accuracy, legitimacy, or veracity.
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Book 02 - Load Shedding 02
Storm Nicholas Manning M S Q; Quinton Henley Manning M S Q
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R517
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Empty Shoes (Paperback)
Denise N Larosa M Ed; Illustrated by Nicholas Manning
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