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WOMEN IN TRANSITION & POST-SOVIET SOCIETY(1985 -2005)

    1 Author(s):  SHRADHA

Vol -  1, Issue- 2 ,         Page(s) : 74 - 95  (2010 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

It would be difficult to gauge the depth of the crisis that had afflicted the Russian Federation and former Soviet Republics from 1985 onwards, intensifying in early post- Soviet era. This period which witnessed the disintegration of Soviet Union, fall of Communism, a troubled transition to a more pluralistic political system and a market economy akin to early capitalism, has been interpreted as nothing short of a ‘second Russian revolution’. These efforts at reform, restructuring and formation of a new political order had implications for women affecting all aspects of her life, including her role and statusat home and in society during transition and early post-Soviet Russia. Social status of a woman simply means the position she wields in a society, group and family-this is a subject of scrutiny during the period under review.

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