Russian Women and the End of Soviet Socialism Everyday Experiences o
Initially expected to bring efficiency to the Russian economy and prosperity to Russian society, the shock therapy of price liberalization, privatization and macroeconomic stabilization introduced under Boris Yeltsin was quickly condemned as hav
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Russian Women and the End of Soviet Socialism
Judith McKinney
Russian Women and the End of Soviet Socialism Everyday Experiences of Economic Change
Judith McKinney Hobart and William Smith Colleges Geneva, NY, USA
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Preface
It has been over twenty-five years since Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and over thirty since his accession to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party. Gorbachev’s rule marked the beginning of the country’s transition from central planning of economic activity and state ownership of the means of production to an economy where markets and private ownership play important roles. Those who expected the smooth and rapid emergence of a textbook version of a private-enterprise, free-market economy functioning in an American-style democracy have been proved wrong; those who look at political and economic life in Russia after Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency in 2012 as proof that nothing in Russia ever really changes are also mistaken. While there is no doubt that Putin has reintroduced central control over much of the political sphere and key elements of the economy, the everyday lives of ordinary Russian citizens are dramatically different from what they were in the late 1980s, in ways both great and small, and for reasons having as much to do with systemic changes and policy shifts as with technological advances. I made
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