 | Postcommunist Welfare States: Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe Subjects: Public welfare -- Russia (Federation); Public welfare -- Europe Eastern; Welfare state -- Russia (Federation); Welfare state -- Europe Eastern; Post-communism -- Russia (Federation); Post-communism -- Europe Eastern; Russia (Federation) -- Politics and; Cook explores the politics and policy of social welfare from 1990 to 2004 in the Russian Federation, Poland, Hungary, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. Linda J. Cook is Professor of Political Science at Brown University. She is the author of The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed: Welfare Policy and Workers' Politics from Brezhnev to Yeltsin and Labor and Liberalization: Trade Unions in the New Russia. |
