Welfare and Life Standards

Code: 002976
Darbasov, V.R., Platonov, I.S
Semeinaia Ekonomika v Iakutii
Teoriia, Opyt, Problemy
[ Semeinaia Ekonomika v Iakutii : Teoriia, Opyt, Problemy ]
Novosibirsk: Nauka, 2003
Language: Russian

Price: $ 21.00

This monograph deals with the economy of the household in Yakutia (Sakha), its theory, experience, and problems. Bibliography (pp. 148-151)

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Code: 004977-98
Naselenie i Usloviia Zhizni v Stranakh Sodruzhestva Nezavisimykh Gosudarstv. 1998
Statisticheskii Sbornik
[ Naselenie i Usloviia Zhizni v Stranakh Sodruzhestva Nezavisimykh Gosudarstv. 1998 : Statisticheskii Sbornik ]
Moscow: GosKomStat, 1998
Language: Russian

Price: $ 52.50

This statistical handbook shows the dynamics of population changes and standards of living in 1991-1997 in the member countries of the CIS. Presented in the handbook are data on number of the population, marriage and divorce, morbidity and mortality, economic activities of population, level and sources of income, consumer prices and expenditure of households, consumption of foodstuffs, social security of disabled persons, housing conditions of the population, etc.

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Code: 015067
Rossiia - Novaia Sotsial`naia Real`nost`
Bogatye. Bednye. Srednii Klass
[ Rossiia - Novaia Sotsial`naia Real`nost` : Bogatye. Bednye. Srednii Klass ]
Moscow: Nauka, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 22.00

This collective monograph, based on several surveys, studies the new social structure of Russia by income and living standards. It analyzes qualitative and quantitative differences (borders) among these three groups, their social and psychological self-perception, spiritual and political values, preferences and choices in leisure time, education, religion, etc.

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Code: 025505
Meerovich, M.G., Konysheva, E.V., Khmel`nickii, D.S
Kladbishche Sotsgorodov
Gradostroitel`naia Politika v SSSR: 1928-1932 gg
[ A cemetry of state housing : City planing system in the USSR: 1928-1932 ]
Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2011
Language: Russian

Price: $ 28.00

This monograph studies the key moments of the government city and housing policy during the early period of industrialization: discussion on "sotsrasselenie" and the reasons for ending it; campaign for the collectivization of housing and the basis for ending it; principles of choosing the territories for new cities and the consequences of the decisions based on these principles; correlations between the social structure of the society and its housing policy; forced migration as a method of providing labor for settlements in the new territories, etc.

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Code: 018637
Nishchenstvo
Retrospektiva Problemy
[ Begging : Problem in retrospective ]
St. Petersburg: Kriga, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 25.00

This is the first publication in the series Morals and Manners of Russia. The first issue deals with acute problem of the end of the 19th-early 20th, and the again of 1990s in Russia: beggary and begging.

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Code: 019218-3
Blagotvoritel`nost` v Rossii
Istoricheskie i Sotsial`no-Ekonomicheskie Issledovaniia
[ Charity in Russia : Historical and social-economic papers ]
St. Petersburg: Izd-vo Imeni N.I. Novikova, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 37.50

This is the third volume of the almanac Charity in Russia (2003/2004). It includes articles by more than 50 scholars, businessmen, and social activists from 22 Russian cities. The theme of charity is connected with the concept of "social responsibility of business".

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Code: 025696
Bessonova, O.E
Zhilishchnyi Razdatok i Modernizatsiia Rossii

[ Distribution of housing and modernization of Russia : ]
Moscow: ROSSPEN,
Language: Russian

Price: $ 16.00

This monograph analyzes low effect of pure market methods in housing industry in Russia. Bessonava offers a solution to the housing problem based not on abstract free market but rather as a transformation of the soviet model with help of market methods.

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Code: 019235
Al`pern, Liudmila
Son i Iav` Zhenskoi Tiur`my

[ Dream and reality in women`s prisons : ]
St. Petersburg: Aleteiia, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 36.00

This is the first Russian study of the female prison as a special phenomenon, and its differences from the male prison. Interviews and stories of women locked in Russian prisons, attached as a supplement to the book, is worth our attention even without academic commentaries and theories.

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Code: 024677
Butovskaia, M.L, Diakonov, I.Iu., Vancatova, M.A
Bredushchie sredi Nas
Nishchie v Rossii i Stranakh Evropy: Istoriia i Sovremennost`
[ Dwelling Among Us : Beggars in Russia and European Countries: Past and Present ]
Moscow: Nauchnyi Mir, 2007
Language: Russian and English

Price: $ 43.00

The phenomenon of begging in its historical past and modern times is discussed in the book. The data on the history of begging in China is presented in comparative perspective. Historical continuity in begging traditions are demonstrated.

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Code: 017291
Popkov, Iu.V., Kostiuk, V.G., Tuguzhekova, V.N
Etnosy Sibiri v Usloviiakh Sovremennykh Reform
Sotsiologicheskaia Ekspertiza
[ Ethnoses of Siberia in circumstances of modern reforms : Sociological expert examination ]
Novosibirsk: [n.p.], 2003
Language: Russian

Price: $ 13.00

This monograph studies the social consequences of ongoing economic and social reforms among the aboriginal population of Siberia. The authors` conclusions are based on analysis of economic and social statistics as well as results of sociological and expert surveys in 19001-2003.

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Code: 017821
Mikhnevich, Vladimir
Iazvy Peterburga
Opyt Istoriko-Statisticheskogo Issledovaniia Nravstvennosti Stolichnogo Naseleniia
[ Evils of St. Petersburg : Opyt Istoriko-Statisticheskogo Issledovaniia Nravstvennosti Stolichnogo Naseleniia ]
St. Petersburg: Limbus Press, 2003
Language: Russian

Price: $ 33.00

This book about the everyday life of St. Petersburg in the second half of the nineteenth century is by the Russian journalist Vladimir Mikhnevich (1841-1899) who worked for the newspaper Novosti for over twenty years.

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Code: 026176
Sem`ia i Semeinoe Vospitanie
Kross-Kul`turnyi Analiz na Materiale Rossii i SShA: Rossiisko-Amerikanskii Proekt
[ Family and family training : Based on cross-cultural analysis of Russia and the USA: Russian-American project ]
Moscow: RGSU, 2009
Language: Russian

Price: $ 32.00

This is result of the joint project of the Russian State Social University and the University of South Carolina, Coastal Carolina Campus "Family and Family education.” It includes articles by Russian and American scholars on the government policy supporting families, family values and reproductive attitudes, the post traditional family, fairness in the family, adopting children, older members of the family, interaction of the family and school, passing on traditions and identity through the family, etc.

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Code: 029391
Sidorina, T.Iu. (Tat`iana Iur`evna)
Gosudarstvo Vseobshchego Blagostoianiia
Ot Utopii k Krizisu
[ Government general welfare : From utopia to crisis ]
Moscow: RGGU, 2013
Language: Russian

Price: $ 33.00

This monograph is about the history of the concept of the state of commonwealth, etymology and various versions of this term. The author analyzes the main concept of an ideal state, social ideal, social utopia and known models of optimal organization of society.

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Code: 031997
Kruzhnov, Iu.N
Istoriia Kvartirnogo Voprosa v Rossii, ili Kommunalki Navsegda. Zapiski Kvartirnogo Maklera

[ History of the apartment question in Russia, or communals forever. Notes of an apartment broker : ]
St. Petersburg: Serebrianyi vek, 2014
Language: Russian

Price: ~~$ 69.00~~
Special price: $ 45.00

This book consists of the two works. One of them, The History of the Housing Issue, is about the housing sector in Russia from the end of 17th century to the present. It covers the main issues of this area: distribution of the government housing, exchange, apartment building, communal apartments, private housing, registration (propiska), renting, cooperatives and condominiums, etc.

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Code: 013455
Chernyshov, L.N
Zhilishchno-Kommunal`naia Reforma v Rossii
Finansovo-Ekonomicheskie Osobennosti; Normativnye Dokumenty
[ Housing and public utilities reform in Russia : Financial-Economic Features. Documents ]
Moscow: Mezhdunarodnyi Tsentr Finansovo-Ekonomicheskogo Razvitiia, 1997
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.00

The author, a member of the Government`s Commission on the Reform of Housing and Public Utilities, discusses current social welfare reforms, which are at the heart of social change in Russia today.

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Code: 008806
Zhilishchanaia Politika Mestnykh Vlastei
Uroki Zapadno-Evropeiskogo Opyta i Reformy v Rossii
[ Housing Policy of Local Authorities: Lessons of West European Experience and Russian Reforms : Uroki Zapadno-Evropeiskogo Opyta i Reformy v Rossii ]
St. Petersburg: Nauka, 1998
Language: Russian

Price: $ 19.50

The housing problem is still one the most acute problems in Russia. This monograph is based on the results of comparative studies of privatization in the housing sector in three countries: Russia, Sweden, and the UK.

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Code: 026747
Na "Kraiu" Sovetskogo Obshchestva
Sotsial`nye Marginaly kak Ob`ekt Gosudarstvennoi Politiki. 1945-1960-e gg.
[ In the "gutter" of soviet society : The social marginals as an object of government policy. 1945-1960 ]
Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2010
Language: Russian

Price: $ 54.00

This book includes documents on the government policy in 1945-1960 towards the socially marginal: beggars, homeless, wanderers, prostitutes, drunkards, criminals and other marginal groups. The many people fell into a risk group not by their own choice, but because of specific social circumstances: the war, political exile, illness, lack of passport, etc.

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Code: 005066
Dokhody Naseleniia i Oplata Truda v Sovremennoi Rossii
Analiz Situatsii, Obosnovanie Deistvii Organov Gosudarstvennoi Vlasti i Upravleniia
[ Income of population and labor pay in modern Russia : Analysis of the situation, justification of actions of the state system ]
: RAGS, 2008
Language: Russian

Price: $ 28.00

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Code: 019624
Birman, Igor`
Uroven` Russkoi Zhizni (a takzhe Amerikanskoi)
Voprosy - Materialy - Sravneniia - Nekotorye Otvety
[ Level of Russian Living (and American as well) : Questions - Materials - Comparisons - Some Answers ]
Moscow: Nauchnyi Mir, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 43.00

Igor` Birman (b. 1929), one of the leading Russian economists of the 1960s, was expelled from the Communist Party for his critical presentation at the meeting at the State Committee of State Planning in 1970.

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Code: 016640
Upravlenie Sotsial`no-Ekonomicheskim Razvitiem Rossii
Kontseptsii, Tseli, Mekhanizmy
[ Management of social and economic development : Kontseptsii, Tseli, Mekhanizmy ]
Moscow: Ekonomika, 2002
Language: Russian

Price: $ 43.00

This is a collective monograph published by scholars from the Economics Department of the University of Management (Moscow). The book analyzes the results and lessons of economic and social development in 1991-2002.

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Code: 015809
Massovyi Turizm v Stalinskoi Povsednevnosti

[ Mass tourism in the everyday life of the Stalin period : ]
: ROSSPEN, Fond , 2010
Language: Russian

Price: $ 33.00

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Code: 010847
Mat` i Ditia: Prava, L`goty, Posobiia
Sbornik Normativno-Pravovykh Aktov
[ Mother and child: Rights, privileges, public assistance : A Collection of legal acts ]
Almaty: Zheti Zharfy, 1996
Language: Russian

Price: $ 18.00

A collection of laws and legal acts on public assistance to families with children and mothers.

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Code: 010848
O Negosudarstvennykh Dobrovol`nykh Pensionnykh Fondakh (Zakon Respubliki Kazakhstan)

[ On non-governmental voluntary pension funds : ]
Almaty: Zheti Zharfy, 1996
Language: Russian and Kazakh

Price: $ 9.00

This brochure contains the Kazakhstan law "On Non-governmental Voluntary Pension Funds". Parallel text in Russian and Kazakh.

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Code: 015720
Pensionnaia Reforma v Rossii
Sbornik Normativnykh Dokumentov po Sostoianiiu na 1 Marta 2002 Goda
[ Pension reform in Russia : Collection of legal acts on March 1st, 2002 ]
Ioshkar-Ola: Lik Press, 2002
Language: Russian

Price: $ 13.00

The Russian social security system was reformed in the last two years to meet the challenge of unfavorable demographic trends in the 21st century (1998-2056). This is a collection of five federal laws on compulsory social security, work and individual pension systems, pensions for specific categories of government workers.

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Code: 005459
Prokopov, F.T., Maleva, T.M
Politika Protivodeistviia Bezrabotitse

[ Policy of reducing unemployment : ]
Moscow: ROSSPEN - Biuro Ekonomicheskogo Analiza, 1999
Language: Russian

Price: $ 27.00

Based on studies made by the Bureau of Economic Analysis in 1997-98, this book delineates a new methodology of studying the labor market in Russia, analyzes employment and unemployment in the context of the whole economic situation, describes the government policy and programs for decreasing unemployment, offers a new methodological approach to evaluation of their effectiveness.

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Code: 007725
Naselenie i Sotsial`noe Razvitie g. Novosibirska
Prikladnye Voprosy Statisticheskogo Analiza
[ Population and social sphere of the city of Novosibirsk : Issues of application of statistical analysis ]
Novosibirsk: Novosibirskaia Gos. Akademiia Ekonomiki i Upravleniia, 2000
Language: Russian

Price: $ 18.00

This is a collection of studies of the social and demographic situation in the largest city of Siberia, Novosibirsk. Using advanced statistical methods the authors analyze: life expectancy, aging of the population, birth rate, demographic potential, health issues, demographic structure, etc.

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Code: 031334
Bednost` i Bednye v Sovremennoi Rossii

[ Poverty and the poor in contemporary Russia : ]
Moscow: Ves` Mir, 2014
Language: Russian

Price: $ 24.00

This collective monograph is based on materials of All-Russian survey 2012-2013. The survey analyzes the attitude towards poverty and the poor in the last ten years. The monograph creates sociological portraits of Russian poor based on various theoretical frames: demographic characteristics, place in the labor market, social mobility, etc.

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Code: 008901
Prioritetnye Natsional`nye Proekty
Tsifry, Fakty, Dokumenty
[ Priority national projects : Numbers, facts, documents ]
Moscow: Evropa, 2006
Language: Russian

Price: ~~$ 12.00~~
Special price: $ 10.80

The idea of establishing a development fund has finally found expression within President Putin`s assignments named as National Projects. This encompasses accessible housing, education, medical care and agricultural sector support.

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Code: 031265
Kommunal`nye Tarify, Putin i "Gazprom"
Nezavisimyi Ekspertnyi Doklad
[ Public utilities, Putin and Gazprom : Independent expert report ]
Moscow: RPR-Parnas, 2014
Language: Russian

Price: $ 9.00

The gas and oil company Gazprom is a business owned and managed by the Putin`s "friends" or business partners. Gazprom constantly raises prices for gas for the population of Russia. The report analyzes the connection between the actions of the Putin administration and public utility prices.

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Code: 015107
Reforma Zhilishchno-Kommunal`nogo Khoziaistva
Struktura i Upravlenie. Informatsionno-kompiuternye Sistemy: Analiticheskii Obzor
[ Reform of housing and municipal economy : Structure and management. Information systems: Analytical review ]
: Nauka, 2001
Language: Russian

Price: $ 18.00

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