Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. List of Abbreviations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I. 1940s–1980s THE FAMILY AS A “BASIC UNIT OF SOCIALIST SOCIETY”
7. CHAPTER 1 Lone Motherhood in Soviet Russia in the Mid-20th Century—In a European Context 23
8. Chapter 2. Family, Divorce, and Comrades’ Courts: Soviet Family and Public Organizations During the Thaw 47
9. Chapter 3. A Life of Labor, a Life of Love: Telling the Life of a Young Peasant Mother Facing Collectivization 65
10. Chapter 4. East German Women Going West: Family, Children and Partners in Life-Experience Literature 85
11. Chapter 5. Why Does Public Policy Implementation Fail? Lithuanian Office of State Benefits for Mothers of Large Families and Single Mothers, 1944–1956 105
12. Chapter 6. The Latvian Family Experience with Sovietization 1945–1990 123
13. PART II 1990s–2000s SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE MIRROR OF FAMILY LIFE
14. Chapter 7. “Two children Puts You in the Zone of Social Misery:” Childbearing and Risk Perception among Russian Women 143
15. Chapter 8. “Supporting Genuine Development of the Child:” Public Childcare Centers Versus Family in Post-Soviet Russia 165
16. Chapter 9. Everyday Continuity and Change: Family and Family Policy in Russia 185
17. Chapter 10. Single Mothers—Clients or Citizens? Social Work with Poor Families in Russia 207
18. Chapter 11. Welfare Crisis and Crisis Centers in Russia Today 231
19. Chapter 12. Marriage and Divorce Law in Russia and the Baltic States: Overview of Recent Changes 251
20. Chapter 13. Doing Parenting in Post-Socialist Estonia and Latvia 273
21. Chapter 14. Gendered Experiences in Entrepreneurship, Family and Social Activities in Russia 297
22. Notes on Contributors 319
23. Index 323