The Right to Be Helped : Deviance, Entitlement, and the Soviet Moral Order /

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"Doesn't an educated person--simple and working, sick and with a sick child--doesn't she have the right to enjoy at least the crumbs at the table of the revolutionary feast?" Disabled single mother Maria Zolotova-Sologub raised this question in a petition dated July 1929 demandin...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Galmarini-Kabala, Maria Cristina (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Marginality, Social > Soviet Union.
People with disabilities > Soviet Union > Social conditions.
People with disabilities > Soviet Union > Economic conditions.
Public welfare > Soviet Union.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Prologue deviant citizens in fin-de-siecle and interwar Europe
  • section I. Ideas of rights and agents of help
  • 1. Social rights in Russia before and after the Revolution
  • 2. From invalids to pensioners
  • 3. The activists and their charges
  • section II. The practice of help
  • 4. "Homes of work and love" (1918-1927)
  • 5. "Worthless workers--they don't fulfill the norms" (1928-1940)
  • 6. "A massively traumatized population" (1941-1950)
  • Epilogue the rivalry with the West and the Soviet moral order.

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