Bücher von Bertram Silverman

Now expanded to cover Russia's 1998 financial collapse, this text examines the unequal distribution of the costs and benefits of Russia's leap into capitalism, and its social consequences, presenting a portrait of the lives and circumstances of comtemporary Russians.

This is a collection of papers from a US-Soviet conference on labour issues in the face of political democratization and economic liberalization. It considers the possible response of the emerging independent unions to anticipated rises in unemployment.