Disability in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union : history, policy and everyday life

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Disability in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union : history, policy and everyday life

edited by Michael Rasell and Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova

(BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies / series editor, Richard Sakwa, 94)

Routledge, 2014

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • Conceptualising disability in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union / Michael Rasell and Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova
  • Soviet style welfare : the disabled soldiers of the "Great Patriotic War" / Beate Fieseler
  • Prosthetic promise and Potemkin limbs in late-Stalinist Russia / Frances Bernstein
  • Heroes and spongers : the iconography of disability in Soviet posters and film / Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Pavel Romanov
  • Between disabling disorders and mundane nervousness : representations of psychiatric patients and their distress in Soviet and post-Soviet Latvia / Agita Lūse and Daiga Kamerāde
  • Living with a disability in Hungary : reconstructing the narratives of disabled students / Eszter Gábor
  • Citizens or "dead souls"? : an anthropological perspective on disability and citizenship in post-Soviet Ukraine / Sarah Phillips
  • Breaking the silence : disability and sexuality in contemporary Bulgaria / Teodor Mladenov
  • Those who do not work shall not eat! : a comparative perspective on the ideology of work within Eastern European disability discourses / Darja Zavirek
  • The challenges of operationalizing a human rights approach to disability in Central Asia / Hisayo Katsui
  • The complex role of non-governmental organisations in the advancing the inclusion of children with disabilities in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Bulgaria / Majda Bećirević and Monica Dowling
  • Lost in transition : missed opportunities for reforming disabled children's education in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia / Viktoria Shmidt

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