Russia's Torn Safety Nets

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Mark G. Field, Judyth L. Twigg

      Pages 1-9

3. Health Issues

   1. The Health and Demographic Crisis in Post-Soviet Russia: A Two-Phase Development

      • Mark G. Field

      Pages 11-42

   2. Unfulfilled Hopes: The Struggle to Reform Russian Health Care and Its Financing

      • Judyth L. Twigg

      Pages 43-64

   3. Negotiating the Post-Soviet Medical Marketplace: Growing Gaps in the Safety Net

      • Julie V. Brown, Nina L. Rusinova

      Pages 65-82

   4. The Politics of Health Care in Russia: The Feminization of Medicine and Other Obstacles to Professionalism

      • Kate Schecter

      Pages 83-99

   5. Drug Abuse in Post-Communist Russia

      • John M. Kramer

      Pages 101-122

   6. The Problem of AIDS

      • David E. Powell

      Pages 123-151

   7. The Disabled in Russia in the 1990s

      • Ethel Dunn

      Pages 153-171

4. Social Issues

   1. The “New” Sexism: Images of Russian Women during the Transition

      • Valerie Sperling

      Pages 173-189

   2. New World of Work: Employment, Unemployment, and Adaptation

      • Walter D. Connor

      Pages 191-212

   3. Internal Migration: A Civil Society Challenge

      • Justin Burke

      Pages 213-230

   4. Russia’s Aging Population

      • Victoria A. Velkoff, Kevin Kinsella

      Pages 231-250

   5. Promises to Keep: Pension Provision in the Russian Federation

      • Cynthia Buckley, Dennis Donahue

      Pages 251-270

   6. The Social Crisis of the Russian Military

      • Deborah Yarsike Ball

      Pages 271-287

5. Replacing the Safety Net?

   1. U.S. Foreign Assistance to the Russian Federation for Medicine and Health

      • Edward J. Burger Jr.

      Pages 289-303

6. Back Matter

   Pages 305-314

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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.

• AIDS
• care
• communism
• education
• employment
• health
• health care
• Migration
• unemployment
• russian and post-soviet politics

Mark G. Field is an Associate at the Davis Center for Russian Studies and Adjunct Professor at Harvard University’s School of Public Health.

Judyth L. Twigg is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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