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1 online resource (630 pages) |
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BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies |
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BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Conceptualising disability in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union; Disability as a lens for understanding Eastern Europe; Disability, modernity and postsocialism; Locating Eastern Europe in disability studies; The evolution of disability studies in Eastern Europe; Multidisciplinary perspectives on disability in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union; References; 2. Soviet-style welfare: the disabled soldiers of the 'Great Patriotic War' |
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Historical backgroundNo benefits for those who can work: the search for recognition by disabled veterans; Not enough to live on: pensions for disabled soldiers; The lower end of the hierarchy: the reintegration of disabled soldiers into working life; Heroes without a voice: how the state hindered a collective identity among disabled veterans; Conclusion; Notes; 3. Prosthetic promise and Potemkin limbs in late-Stalinist Russia; Revolutionary hands; Prosthetic promises and 'invalid-inventors'; The failings of Soviet technology; Complaints, responses, and immunity; Conclusion; Notes |
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4. Heroes and spongers: the iconography of disability in Soviet posters and filmIcons and metaphors of disability; Visual depictions in the 1920s: a reserve army of labour; 'With such people we will win any war!': clichés of military heroism in the 'Grand Style' period; Limited social change during the 'Thaw' period; Moral variations in the visual aesthetics of disability during the stagnation period (1964-85); There are invalids in the USSR: the reconstruction of visual culture; Conclusion: changes and challenges of (post) Soviet disability imagery; Notes; References |
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5. Between disabling disorders and mundane nervousness: representations of psychiatric patients and their distress in Soviet and post-Soviet LatviaMental illnesses as socially constructed entities; 'Partially or completely incapable of work': mental illness and disability in Soviet times; Discovering patient rights: post-Soviet perspectives on psychiatric disability; 'Minor psychiatry' comes to the aid: easing the neurologists' workload; 'Sheer otherness': representations of mental illness in Latvian society19; Stories about people with mental illness: changes in media representations |
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Concluding discussionNotes; Bibliography; 6. Living with a disability in Hungary: reconstructing the narratives of disabled students; Historical background; Research on disability in Hungary; Research question and methodological considerations; Living with a disability: individual cases; Péter: 'So what if I am not able to drive now? I am able to do everything else'; The residential institution; Independence and initial successes; Higher education -- looking for new ways; Mariann: 'I longed for an ordinary life so much and in fact I do even now' |
| Summary |
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. Discussions of disability in culture and society highlight the broader conditions in which disabled people must build their identities and wel |
| Notes |
The years of vocational education before the car accident |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Iarskaia-Smirnova, Elena
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| ISBN |
9781317962199 |
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1317962192 |
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9781317962205 |
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1317962206 |
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