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Table of Contents ——————————————————————————————————— List of Abbreviations vii Preface ix Introduction | Helene Carlbäck, Yulia Gradskova and Zhanna Kravchenko 1 PART I | 1940s–1980s THE FAMILY AS A “BASIC UNIT OF SOCIALIST SOCIETY” Chapter 1. Lone Motherhood in Soviet Russia in the Mid-20th Century—In a European Context | Helene Carlbäck 25 Chapter 2. Family, Divorce, and Comrades’ Courts: Soviet Family and Public Organizations During the Thaw | Elena Zhidkova 47 Chapter 3. A Life of Labor, a Life of Love: Telling the Life of a Young Peasant Mother Facing Collectivization | Ildikó Asztalos Morell 65 Chapter 4. East German Women Going West: Family, Children and Partners in Life-Experience Literature | Christine Farhan 85 Chapter 5. Why Does Public Policy Implementation Fail? Lithuanian Office of State Benefits for Mothers of Large Families and Single Mothers, 1944–1956 | Dalia Leinarte 105 Chapter 6. The Latvian Family Experience with Sovietization 1945–1990 | Maija Runcis 123 PART II | 1990s–2000s SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE MIRROR OF FAMILY LIFE Chapter 7. “Two children Puts You in the Zone of Social Misery:” Childbearing and Risk Perception among Russian Women | Anna Rotkirch and Katja Kesseli 145 Chapter 8. “Supporting Genuine Development of the Child:” Public Childcare Centers Versus Family in Post-Soviet Russia | Yulia Gradskova 165 Chapter 9. Everyday Continuity and Change: Family and Family Policy in Russia | Zhanna Kravchenko 185 Chapter 10. Single Mothers—Clients or Citizens? Social Work with Poor Families in Russia | Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Pavel Romanov 207 Chapter 11. Welfare Crisis and Crisis Centers in Russia Today | Aino Saarinen 231 Chapter 12. Marriage and Divorce Law in Russia and the Baltic States: Overview of Recent Changes | Olga A. Khazova 251 Chapter 13. Doing Parenting in Post-Socialist Estonia and Latvia | Ingegerd Municio-Larsson 273 Chapter 14. Gendered Experiences in Entrepreneurship, Family and Social Activities in Russia | Ann-Mari Sätre 297 Notes on Contributors 319 Index 323 ...

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