title: Russian revolution and the modern welfare state
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metadata.value: Gribanova, Galina I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-05-17T08:17:21Z
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metadata.value: 2018-05-17T08:17:21Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-03
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metadata.value: Gribanova G. I. Russian revolution and the modern welfare state. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Political Science. International Relations, 2018, vol. 11, issue 1, pp. 33–41.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu06.2018.104
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/10228
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The welfare state is a deliberately designed political and legal social institution that allows
  a more equal distribution of material wealth, thereby contributing to the preservation of social
  stability in the society. Despite the fact that the very idea of a welfare state started to be implemented
  in Europe already in the second half of the 19th century, it was the 1917 revolution in Russia that dramatically intensified this process, ultimately leading to the emergence of a welfare
  state in the form in which it existed in 1960s and 70s, a period considered to be its “golden
  age”. If before that the idea of social guarantees for workers was one of the main slogans of the
  European Social Democracy, which viewed the welfare state as an intermediate stage in the
  emergence of a socialist society, after the revolution other political forces came to realize the
  need for large-scale social reforms. It was necessary to take into account, in particular, the
  extensive use of the example of the Soviet Union in communist propaganda. Despite the problems
  of the functioning of the Soviet welfare state, the very fact of its existence in the context
  of the global confrontation between two ideological and political systems made political elites
  constantly keep in mind the question of the volume and quality of social services, raising the
  overall level of material well-being of the citizens. Therefore, it can hardly be considered incidental
  that the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union practically coincided
  with the full-scale crisis of the Western welfare state.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Political Science. International Relations;Volume 11; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: welfare state
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social justice
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Cold War
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: propaganda
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: crisis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Russian revolution and the modern welfare state
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metadata.value: Article
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