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Disability in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. History, policy and everyday life
Iarskaia-Smirnova E. R., Rasell M., Romanov P., Шмидт В. Р., Phillips S., Bernstein F., Zavirsek D., Fieseler B.
Academic editor: Iarskaia-Smirnova E. R., M. Rasell
There are over thirty million disabled people in Russia and Eastern Europe, yet their voices are rarely heard in scholarly studies of life and well-being in the region. This book brings together new research by internationally recognised local and non-native scholars in a range of countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It covers, historically, the origins of legacies that continue to affect well-being and policy in the region today, discusses disability in culture and society, highlighting the broader conditions that construct disability and in which disabled people must build their identities and well-being, provides in-depth biographical profiles that outline what living with disabilities in the region is like, and examines policy interventions, including international influences, recent reforms and the difficulties of implementing inclusive, community-based care. The book will be of interest both to regional specialists, for whom the problem of declining standards of health and well-being is a crucial concern, and to scholars of disability and social policy internationally
Chapters
Iarskaia-Smirnova E. R., Romanov P., , in: Disability in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. History, policy and everyday life.: NY, Abingdon: Routledge, 2014. P. 67–96.
Cinematic representations not only strongly influence our interpretation of history (Ferro 1992: 315), but are also important for understanding key aspects of Soviet disability policy. At the beginning of the twentieth century the new medium of cinema enjoyed immense popularity in many countries due to the efforts of commercial filmmakers to produce popular entertainment in ...
Added: November 13, 2013
Rasell M., Iarskaia-Smirnova E. R., , in: Disability in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. History, policy and everyday life.: NY, Abingdon: Routledge, 2014.
The topic of disability in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union commonly evokes a range of depressing images from abandoned children in dilapidated orphanages to military veterans in uniform begging on street corners. More positive associations are far less frequent, whether disability activism, inclusive kindergartens or disability-themed film festivals. The ‘micro worlds’ of disabled ...
Added: November 13, 2013
Синяков А. А., Зверева В., Шелованова Т. И., / Центральный банк Российской Федерации. Серия 132 / 2024 "Серия докладов об экономических исследованиях". 2024. № 132.
At the end of 2023, Russia updated its Strategy for Improving Financial Literacy and Developing Financial Culture Until 2030. Unlike the previous strategy, the current strategic goals include not only financial literacy but also financial culture. ‘Culture’ is normative and socially preferred behaviour. The updated strategy brings into focus the relationship between financial literacy and responsible financial behaviour. To explore this relationship, the authors rely on data from the All-Russian Survey of Consumer Finance (2020 and 2022). Socially ...
Added: June 1, 2026
Vorchik A., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This work is devoted to a theoretical explanation of the Easterlin paradox, according to which long-term economic growth does not make average level of people's happiness increasing. By happiness, we mean the intensity of emotions people experience while comparing their new income with its expected value, or the target income with its original value. In the first case, ...
Added: May 31, 2026
Sizov A., Rodionova M., Sedashov E. et al., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series PS "Political Science". 2026. No. 1.
Rapid development of surveillance technologies is one of the most socially important consequences of the digital age. This paper investigates the factors determining consent to surveillance of various types of personal data and contributes to rapidly growing research on citizens perceptions of surveillance practices. Relying on a comprehensive survey experiment, we study the effects of ...
Added: May 15, 2026
Попов Д. И., Балтийский регион 2025 Т. 17 № 4 С. 68–83
The study examines the image of Russia in Finland’s historical policy in the context of the country’s accession to NATO. The aim is to identify shifts in the interpretation of Russia’s role in the Finnish political elite’s understanding of its own past, shared Russian–Finnish and global history. To this end, the analysis focuses on President ...
Added: May 13, 2026
Карцева М. А., Peresetsky A., / Высшая школа экономики. Серия WP2 "Количественный анализ в экономике". 2026. № WP2/2026/01.
This study examines the association between health status among elderly individuals living alone and pet ownership (cats, dogs). We employ data from the “Time Use Survey” conducted by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in 2019, which contains information on more than 10,000 elderly individuals living alone aged 60 or older in Russia, including data ...
Added: May 8, 2026
Новикова А. Д., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2026 Т. 17 № 2(160)
This article examines the residence of the British envoy James Harris in St. Petersburg (1777—1783) as an instrument of his diplomatic mission. Despite growing scholarly interest in informal diplomacy, the embassy house as a space for representation and everyday sociability has rarely been the subject of dedicated research. Drawing on a wide range of sources, ...
Added: April 29, 2026
Kanaev E., , in: Rusia - Indonesia: Warisan Sejarah dan Kerja Sama Masa Depan.: M.: IOS RAS, 2025. P. 440–463.
The chapter assesses educational cooperation between Russia and Indonesia in the digital field. ...
Added: April 21, 2026
Kanaev E., Tawares J. A., Drugov A. Y. et al., M.: IOS RAS, 2025.
The year 2025 is marked by two significant anniversaries – the 80th anniversary of Indonesia's independence and the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the Republic of Indonesia. The monograph offers the reader an in-depth analysis of the dynamics and features of the interaction between CCCH/Russia and Indonesia, ...
Added: April 21, 2026
Kanaev E., Попов А. В., Другов А. Ю. et al., М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2025.
The year 2025 was marked by two significant anniversaries – the 80th anniversary of Indonesia's independence and the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the Republic of Indonesia. The monograph offers the reader an in-depth analysis of the dynamics and features of the interaction between CCCH/Russia and Indonesia, ...
Added: April 21, 2026
Kosevich E., Latin American Perspectives 2026 P. 1–17
This research explores the similarities and differences in the interpretation of multipolarity,
which have developed in the academic discourse of Russia and Latin America. The
paper focuses on the position that prevails in Latin America regarding the Russia–Ukraine
conflict, emphasizing the emergence of a group of countries within LAC that support
“active neutrality.” The author concludes that existing contradictions ...
Added: April 21, 2026
Shelkovnikov A., Азия и Африка сегодня 2025 № 7 С. 37–46
В статье рассматриваются перспективы сотрудничества России и Объединенных Арабских Эмиратов (ОАЭ) в области обеспечения информационной безопасности. Выяснено, что данное сотрудничество является частью более широкого взаимодействия, нашедшего правовое закрепление в Декларации о стратегическом сотрудничестве от 1 июня 2018 г. Успех ОАЭ в области развития информационных технологий и обеспечения информационной безопасности связан с устойчивым экономическим ростом, обеспечившим ...
Added: April 16, 2026
Stadnik N., Антонов Н. С., Сахарова Г. М. et al., Профилактическая медицина 2025 Т. 28 № 6 С. 11–20
Studies on alcohol use generally analyze the age-related behavior associated with this factor but do not consider the attitude of people of different ages to the socio-economic situation, the absence or implementation of anti-alcohol policies, or the attitude change over time in people of different generations.
Objective. To analyze the features and changes over time of ...
Added: April 9, 2026
Stadnik N., Никитина С. Ю., Сахарова Г. М. et al., Демографическое обозрение 2025 Т. 12 № 2 С. 132–156
The study assesses the dynamics of the prevalence and structure of alcohol consumption in Russia by age, gender and regions. The data source is the microdata databases of the Sample Survey of the Health Condition of the Population conducted by Rosstat in 2019-2023. The assessment of the dynamics of alcohol consumption is based on the ...
Added: April 9, 2026
Stadnik N., Никитина С. Ю., Сахарова Г. М. et al., Демографическое обозрение 2024 Т. 11 № 1 С. 37–60
This study proposes a method to assess the dynamics of tobacco and nicotine consumption in Russia by age, gender and regions based on the data of the Sample Survey of the Health Condition of the Population conducted by Rosstat in 2019-2022. The data source is the microdata databases of the Survey. The assessment of the ...
Added: April 9, 2026
Di Puppo L., Roy Chowdhury A., Globalizations 2026 Vol. 23 No. 1 P. 1–9
In this special issue, we bring together the post-colonial and post-socialist conditions of the post-Soviet space and the Indian subcontinent through the study of human–nature relationships. Not only are these two regions entangled through the Eurasian geography, but they also both represent hybrid modernization trajectories characterized by varying socio-political responses to Western modernity and the ...
Added: March 27, 2026
Beliakova N., Klyueva V., Religions 2023 Vol. 14 No. 8 Article 1062
In this article, using the example of the Russian Arctic, we analyze how the anti-cult movement creates the conditions for the discrimination and suppression of religious minorities. The anti-cultist (anti-sectarian) fears and phobias of the Russian establishment are closely bound to the fears of missionary activity. The change in legislation regulating missionary activity deliberately limits ...
Added: March 26, 2026
Klyueva V., Журнал фронтирных исследований 2024 Т. 9 № 4 С. 146–168
The paper focuses on the analysis of survival practices in northern Russian settlements that developed in the 1990s. Most of the northern settlements were in a state of decline: changes in the socio‑demographic composition and population size, transformation of the local economy, degradation of transport infrastructure, deterioration in the quality of life. The reason for the decline ...
Added: March 26, 2026
Asatryan G., Trenin D., Россия в глобальной политике 2025 Т. 23 № 6 С. 191–205
The armed confrontation between the Russian Federation and the collective West requires focusing its attention and resources on Ukraine. Under extreme circumstances, it is more difficult for Russia to expand or even maintain its position in other neighboring countries.
Moscow has lost its position as the main mediator in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. Its peacekeeping mission in ...
Added: March 20, 2026
Smirnov A., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2021 № 1 С. 129–153
The article considers a theoretical model of digital society based on four concepts: super-connectivity, platformisation, datafication, and algorithmic governance. The model describes how the digitalisation of society deepens: from the transfer of individual practices and social interactions to a new social order based on big data. Analysis of panel data from the 2003–2018 longitudinal survey ...
Added: March 18, 2026
Vorchik A., / Social Science Research Network. Серия SSRN Working Paper Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
This article is devoted to the phenomenon of intrinsic motivation, to understand which two models are proposed. We study how positive/negative intrinsic motivation to work (experienced utility) affects worker's individual labour supply (model I) and the amount of effort they exert (model II). In model I, we use intrinsic motivation to explain the positive/negative slope ...
Added: March 15, 2026
Musaev A. U., Vorchik A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This paper attempts to model the evolutionary theory of modernization and democratization. The model reflects the key provisions of R. Inglehart and C. Welzel's theory and provides a microfoundation for the adaptation of subjective values to the objective importances of the survival factors and the structure of the labour markets from the perspective of evolutionary ...
Added: February 10, 2026
Dorkhanov I., Sokolov B., / Series OSF "SocArXiv". 2025.
This study investigates the relationship between individual religiosity and attitudes towards immigrants of different religious backgrounds in Europe. Using data from the 7th wave of the European Social Survey (2014-2015), we examine the influence of individual denomination and subjective religiosity level on hostility towards Muslim immigrants and the importance of immigrants’ Christian background. Our analysis, ...
Added: December 23, 2025
Nastina E., Sokolov B., / Series OSF "SocArXiv". 2025.
We argue that a classification-based approach to measuring cultural differences across countries or subnational regions is a promising complement, and sometimes an alternative, to the widely used dimensional method in cross-cultural research. The latter summarises cultural variation using continuous dimensions, for example, Hofstede’s famous individualism-collectivism dimension. However, this approach relies on strong parametric assumptions, which are ...
Added: December 23, 2025
Korsunava V., Sokolov B., / Series OSF "SocArXiv". 2025.
Non-probability web surveys offer several advantages over face-to-face (F2F) interviews—they are cheaper, faster, more accessible, and reduce interviewer effects and desirability bias. As such, they are increasingly popular in both academic and commercial research. However, they often yield demographically biased samples, raising concerns about the accuracy of the resulting public opinion estimates. Most studies on ...
Added: December 23, 2025