Beschreibung:
Introduction: The Costs of Market Bolshevism; Free Market Ideology and the Specter of Inequality; Critical Responses to Radical Reform; The Rise of Mass Poverty; A Question of Difference: Women as Losers; Wage Earners: Winners and Losers; A New Capitalist Class: Entrepreneurs and the Economic Elite; Why No Social Democracy in Russia?; After the Fall.
Now expanded to cover Russia's 1998 financial collapse, New Rich, New Poor, New Russia focuses on the social consequences of a modern-day Great Depression. The study draws on abundant statistical material and survey research data to present a carefully assembled portrait of the life circumstances of contemporary Russians.