Russia's Torn Safety Nets : Health and Social Welfare During the Transition

Russia's attempt to replace the failed Soviet system and its command economy with a capitalist, democratic society has produced a health and social welfare crisis, at considerable human cost. Russia s Torn Safety Nets presents a series of essays by distinguished Russian and American scholars which describe and analyze the consequences of the collapsed socialist system, focusing on issues of health and demography, HIV/AIDS, drug addiction and abuse, the disabled, aging and pensions, education, women and sexism, and social issues in the military. The essays conclude with a section on the private and public efforts to ease the impact of the ongoing transition on the Russia people. Front Matter....Pages i-vi Introduction....Pages 1-9 The Health and Demographic Crisis in Post-Soviet Russia: A Two-Phase Development....Pages 11-42 Unfulfilled Hopes: The Struggle to Reform Russian Health Care and Its Financing....Pages 43-64 Negotiating the Post-Soviet Medical Marketplace: Growing Gaps in the Safety Net....Pages 65-82 The Politics of Health Care in Russia: The Feminization of Medicine and Other Obstacles to Professionalism....Pages 83-99 Drug Abuse in Post-Communist Russia....Pages 101-122 The Problem of AIDS....Pages 123-151 The Disabled in Russia in the 1990s....Pages 153-171 The “New” Sexism: Images of Russian Women during the Transition....Pages 173-189 New World of Work: Employment, Unemployment, and Adaptation....Pages 191-212 Internal Migration: A Civil Society Challenge....Pages 213-230 Russia’s Aging Population....Pages 231-250 Promises to Keep: Pension Provision in the Russian Federation....Pages 251-270 The Social Crisis of the Russian Military....Pages 271-287 U.S. Foreign Assistance to the Russian Federation for Medicine and Health....Pages 289-303 Back Matter....Pages 305-314