Social and Economic Rights in the Soviet Bloc: A Documentary Review Seventy Years After the Bolshevik RevolutionG. George R. Urban Transaction Publishers - 249 Seiten With minor changes, this book is an enlarged version of the August 1987 issue (no.127) of Survey magazine. A wide range of social and economic issues are addressed by drawing documentary evidence from both official and unofficial sources (reports, interviews, articles) to apply the Communist government's own terms of reference in an assessment of its record of progress. No index. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) |
Inhalt
| 1 | |
Social and Economic Rights in the Soviet Union | 6 |
Doctor for All Seasons | 43 |
Social and Economic Rights in Eastern Europe | 47 |
2 The Right to Work | 73 |
3 The Right to Housing | 90 |
Postscript | 105 |
Short Notes on Health and Health Care in Eastern Europe | 109 |
Complacency Reigns in the Collective | 170 |
Nursery School Children Poisoned | 172 |
Where Bad Doctors Come From | 173 |
Pay Clinics | 174 |
Private Dentist | 176 |
Why They Die Younger and Unreported | 177 |
The Czechoslovak HealthLabyrinth | 178 |
Drink Drugs and Corruption | 181 |
The Supply of Medicines in Poland | 112 |
Abortions in Romania | 117 |
Romanian Pensioners Barred from Moving to Population Centres | 118 |
Neurotic Disorders in Hungary | 120 |
Folk Medicine in Bulgaria | 122 |
Documents | 127 |
Will It Fly? | 128 |
Comrades You Must not Panic | 130 |
Changes in the Ownership of the Means of Production | 131 |
Resistance to Change | 132 |
Inertia in the Soul | 133 |
Justified Inequality | 134 |
Concealing the Facts | 135 |
The ShadowBoxing is Over | 136 |
They Are Afraid of Independence | 138 |
The Ship Itself Must Be Reconstructed | 140 |
Perestroika Must not Lead to Pluralism | 143 |
Openness an Insult to Soviet Values? | 145 |
One of the Best Accidents | 146 |
A Case of Free Elections | 147 |
Freedom Indispensable | 148 |
Glasnost and the KGB | 149 |
The People Approve | 150 |
Some Western Accounts of the State of Social and Economic Rights in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe | 151 |
Illness and Mortality | 153 |
Soviet Faith Healer | 156 |
Brains for Dollars | 157 |
Balkan Socialism | 158 |
Worse Than During the War | 164 |
Soviet and East European Accounts Including Samizdat of the State of Social and Economic Rights in the Soviet Bloc | 166 |
We Are Lagging Behind | 169 |
Alcohol as Solace and Barter | 182 |
Alcoholism Leads to Venereal Disease | 184 |
Drinking Behind Quiet Doors | 186 |
Society for the Struggle for Sobriety | 187 |
Rationing Vodka | 188 |
Growing Your Own Drugs | 189 |
Who Gives Them Narcotics? | 191 |
Nina of Minsk | 193 |
Strains and Stresses | 194 |
The Truth is Not for Foreigners | 196 |
On NonWorkers and Parasites | 197 |
Down and Out in Poland | 198 |
Our Work is Our Strength | 199 |
Waiting for a Roof a Bed and Medicines | 203 |
The Consumer Wants to Know | 204 |
Operation FiveStorey Blocks of Flats | 206 |
Punishing Old Age | 207 |
Giving Birth in Tadzhikistan | 208 |
BringYourOwnBeds Hospital | 210 |
The Final Hours of Jozef S | 212 |
Fringe Medicine | 217 |
The Uses of Quack Medicine | 219 |
4 RightsSeen From Below | 221 |
The Soviet View of the State of Human Rights in the United States and Western Europe | 242 |
Thatchers Britain No Example | 244 |
West Violates Human Rights | 245 |
BloodSplashed Pavements in the West | 246 |
Soviet Public Greatly Concerned About AntiSemitic Acts in Canada | 248 |
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Seite 3 - States will respect human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief, for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion. They will promote and encourage the effective exercise of civil, political, economic, social, cultural and other rights and freedoms all of which derive from the inherent dignity of the human person VII.