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How do young people survive in the era of high unemployment,
persistent economic crises and poor living standards that
characterise post-communist society in the former Soviet Union?
This major original book - written by leading authorities in the
field - shows how young people have managed to maintain optimism
despite the very severe economic and social problems that beset the
countries of the former Soviet Union. In most former Soviet
countries the devastating initial shock of market reforms has been
followed by precious little therapy. The effects have been most
pronounced among young people as only a minority have prospered in
the new market economies and inequalities have widened
dramatically. Despite an all-round improvement in educational
standards, most young people have been unable to obtain proper
jobs. Housing and family transitions have been blocked. Uses of
free time have shifted massively from the public into the private
domain. Few young people have any confidence that their countries'
political leaders will engineer solutions. Yet in spite of all
this, the majority prefer the new uncertainties, and the merest
prospect of the Western way of life, to the old guarantees. They
are prepared to give the reforms more time to deliver, but this
time is now fast running out. Surviving Post-communism will be an
illuminating exposition of the realities of post-communist life for
scholars of sociology and transition studies.
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King (Paperback)
S.C. Clarke
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