Services and Quality of Life in Rural Villages in the Former Soviet Union: Data From 1991 and 1993 Surveys - Hardcover

O'Brien, David; Patsiorkovski, Valeri V.; Dersehm, Larry D.; Bonanno, Alessandro; Timberlake, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761809546 ISBN 13: 9780761809548

Publisher: University Press of America, 1998

Synopsis

This book examines rural households' use of and views toward different types of services during the collapse of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the market economy. Using data from 1991 and 1993 household surveys in two rural villages, one in southern Russia and the other in eastern Ukraine, the researchers describe how rural residents viewed the transition from state, mainly kolkhoz (collective farm), monopolies on the provision of retail food and consumer goods, health, housing, education, and communications/transportation, to the beginning of mixed public and private service provision. This book provides a unique benchmark for the study of rural quality of life at the end of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the post-Soviet era.

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About the Author

David J. O'Brien is Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Valeri V. Patsiorkovski is affiliated with the Institute for Socioeconomic Studies of Population in Moscow. Larry D. Dershem is Professor of Rural Sociology at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Alessandro Bonanno is Professor of Sociology at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Charles Timberlake is Professor of History at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761809546
• ISBN 13: 9780761809548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 308