| Other author/creator | Carlbäck, Helene, 1947- |
| Other author/creator | Gradskova, I︠U︡lii︠a︡. |
| Other author/creator | Kravchenko, Zhanna. |
| Other author/creator | American Council of Learned Societies. |
| Contents |
Part I. 1940s - 1980s: the family as a "basic unit of socialist society" 1. Lone motherhood in Soviet Russia in the mid-20th century -- in a European context / Helene Carlbäck ; 2. Family, divorce, and comrades' courts: Soviet family and public organizations during the thaw / Elena Zhidkova ; 3. A life of labor, a life of love: telling the life of a young peasant mother facing collectivization / Ildikó Asztalos Morell; 4. East German women going West: family, children and partners in life-experience literature / Christine Farhan ; 5. Why does public policy implementation fail? Lithuanian office of state benefits for mothers of large families and single mothers, 1944 - 1956 / Dalia Leinarte ; 6. The Latvian family experience with sovietization 1945 - 1990 / Majia Runcis -- Part. II. 1990s - 2000s: social transformation in the mirror of family life 7. "Two children puts you in the zone of social misery": childbearing and risk perception among Russian women / Anna Rotkirch and Katja Kesseli ; 8. "Supporting genuine development of the child": public childcare centers versus family in post-Soviet Russia / Yulia Gradskova ; 9. Everyday continuity and change: family and family policy in Russia / Zhanna Kravchenko ; 10. Single mothers -- clients or citizens? Social work with poor families in Russia / Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Pavel Romanov ; 11. Welfare crisis and crisis-centers in Russia today / Aino Saarinen ; 12. Marriage and divorce law in Russia and the Baltic states: overview of recent changes / Olga A. Khazova ; 13. Doing parenting in post-socialist Estonia and Latvia / Ingegerd Municio-Larsson ; 14. Gendered experiences in entrepreneurship, family and social activities in Russia / Ann-Mari Sätre. |
| General note | Some papers were presented at the conference "Family, Marriage and Parenthood in Eastern Europe, Russia and Sweden" held September 2008 in Sweden. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012000307 |
| ISBN | 9786155053573 (hardbound) |
