Economic Reforms and Welfare Systems in the Ussr, Poland and Hungary

The contributors to this volume analyze the rise of the socialist welfare system, its advantages and disadvantages. The main focus of the volume is the analysis of the changes carried out and also those expected in the welfare system in the USSR, Poland and Hungary as a result of economic reforms.

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Social contract, Jan Adam; drastic changes in the Soviet social contract, Janet G.Chapman; the social contract - Soviet price and housing policy, Elizabeth Clayton; health care in the USSR, Murray Feshbach and Ann Rubin; social policies in the 80s in Poland - a discussion of new approaches, Henryk Flakierski; economic reform and changes in the welfare system in Poland, Zbigniew M.Fallenbuchl; recent trends in social policy in Hungary, Zsuzsa Ferge; economic reform and new employment problems in Hungary, Janos Timar.