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Economic Reforms and Welfare Systems in the USSR, Poland and Hungary

Social Contract in Transformation

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Jan Adam

    1. The University of Calgary, Canada

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Social Contract

    • Jan Adam
    Pages 1-25

  3. Drastic Changes in the Soviet Social Contract

    • Janet G. Chapman
    Pages 26-51

  4. The Social Contract: Soviet Price and Housing Policy

    • Elizabeth Clayton
    Pages 52-67

  5. Health Care in the USSR

    • Murray Feshbach, Ann Rubin
    Pages 68-84

  6. Social Policies in the 1980s in Poland: A Discussion of New Approaches

    • Henryk Flakierski
    Pages 85-109

  7. Economic Reform and Changes in the Welfare System in Poland

    • Zbigniew M. Fallenbuchl
    Pages 110-131

  8. Recent Trends in Social Policy in Hungary

    • Zsuzsa Ferge
    Pages 132-155

  9. Economic Reform and New Employment Problems in Hungary

    • János Timár
    Pages 156-176

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 177-182
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The contributors to this volume analyze the rise of the socialist welfare system, its advantages and disadvantages. The main focus of the volume is the analysis of the changes carried out and also those expected in the welfare system in the USSR, Poland and Hungary as a result of economic reforms.

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  • The University of Calgary, Canada

    Jan Adam

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