The Soviet Social Contract and why it Failed

The Soviet Social Contract and why it Failed

Author: Linda J. Cook

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780674828001

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This book is the first critical assessment of the likelihood and implications of such a contract. Linda Cook pursues the idea from Brezhnev's day to our own, and considers the constraining effect it may have had on Gorbachev's attempts to liberalize the Soviet economy.


Labor Law and Practice in the U.S.S.R.

Labor Law and Practice in the U.S.S.R.

Author: Anne Sires Kahl

Publisher:

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13:

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Labour legislation, labour administration, wages, labour standards, collective agreements, labour relations, trade unions, social security, etc. In the USSR. Tables. Bibliography pp. 79-85. Map.


The Soviet Procuracy Protests

The Soviet Procuracy Protests

Author: Leon Boim

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1978-07-26

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13: 9789028601383

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Compilation of case studies of jurisprudence, containing civil rights appeals to the procuracy of the USSR between 1937 and 1964 - comments on appeals and sentences concerning the misapplication of regulations in the fields of administrative law, civil law, labour law, etc.


Labor Unions and Autocracy in Iran

Labor Unions and Autocracy in Iran

Author: Habib Ladjevardi

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 1985-11-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780815623434

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Ladjevardi follows the rise and ebb of political development in Iran from 1906 to the recent past by looking at one aspect of political growth: the emergence of labor unions. Presenting a history of the labor movement in Iran, he begins with the genesis of the movement from 1906 to 1921 and then looks at the state of labor unions under Reza Shah from 1925 to 1941. During the 1940s polarization between the unions and the government increased, as did Soviet and British influence on the unions. From 1946 to 1953 Iran saw the rise and fall of government-controlled unions and, after 1953, workers without unions. After years of frustration and countless examples of contradiction between words and deeds, the workers and most of the politically aware populace became cynical about constitutional government, parliamentary elections, the promises of the ruling elite, and the friendship of the Western powers. Ladjevardi’s account of the labor movement in Iran leaves little doubt as to why the workers turned against them all: the monarchy, “Western democracy,” and the West itself.


Soviet Workers and De-Stalinization

Soviet Workers and De-Stalinization

Author: Donald Filtzer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-08-08

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780521522410

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In this 1992 book, Dr Filtzer demonstrates how labour policy under Khrushchev was limited to superficial gestures of liberalization and tinkering with incentive schemes. Rather than achieving any lasting effects, the Khrushchev period saw the consolidation of a long-term decline into economic stagnation.


Post-Soviet Conflicts

Post-Soviet Conflicts

Author: Ali Askerov

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-10-07

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 149859655X

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In the 30 years since the emergence of the post-Soviet conflicts things have both changed and remained the same – continuities and changes in post-Soviet conflicts are the primary themes of this volume – it addresses all major wars, civil wars, and rebellions in the former Soviet Union. The volume focuses on factors that have contributed or may contribute to the resolution of the post-Soviet conflicts, most of which have represented rather long and damaging crises. In all conflict cases Moscow has been guided by Russian state interests – some have been instigated or fueled, others driven to a frozen state, and still a couple of others have been constructively resolved due to Moscow’s intervention. Russia has used a long-term strategy for the resolution of those conflicts that have taken place on its soil, but in regards to the conflicts in other post-Soviet states, there is no long-term solution in sight. As such, the conflicts in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and Nagorniy Karabakh, remain unresolved involving not only the named states, but Russia as well. They may represent localized national or regional crisis impacting only the states involved, but for the Russian Federation they epitomize one huge post-Soviet crisis with no obvious end.