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The Right to Be Helped

Deviance, Entitlement, and the Soviet Moral Order

By: Maria Cristina Galmarini

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The Right to Be Helped

Deviance, Entitlement, and the Soviet Moral Order

By: Maria Cristina Galmarini

Doesn't an educated person—simple and working, sick and with a sick child—doesn't she have the right to enjoy at least the crumbs at the table of the revolutionary feast?" Disabled single mother Maria Zolotova-Sologub raised this question in a petition dated July 1929 demanding medical assistance and a monthly subsidy for herself and her daughter. While the welfare of able-bodied and industrially productive people in the first socialist country in the world was protected by a state-funded insurance system, the social rights of labor-incapacitated and unemployed individuals such as Zolotova-Sologub were difficult to define and legitimize. The Right to Be Helped illuminates the ways in which marginalized members of Soviet society understood their social rights and articulated their moral expectations regarding the socialist state between 1917 and 1950. Maria Galmarini-Kabala shows how definitions of state assistance and who was entitled to it provided a platform for policymakers and professionals to engage in heated debates about disability, gender, suffering, and productive and reproductive labor. She explores how authorities and experts reacted to requests for support, arguing that responses were sometimes characterized by an enlightened nature and other times by coercive discipline, but most frequently by a combination of the two. By focusing on the experiences of behaviorally problematic children, unemployed single mothers, and blind and deaf adults in several major urban centers, this important study shows that the dialogue over the right to be helped was central to defining the moral order of Soviet socialism. It will appeal to scholars and students of Russian history, as well as those interested in comparative disabilities and welfare studies.

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Northern Illinois University Press

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1501757881

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Ambassadors of Social Progress

A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War

By: Maria Cristina Galmarini

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Ambassadors of Social Progress

A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War

By: Maria Cristina Galmarini

Ambassadors of Social Progress examines the ways in which blind activists from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe entered the postwar international disability movement and shaped its content and its course. Maria Cristina Galmarini shows that the international work of socialist blind activists was defined by the larger politics of the Cold War and, in many respects, represented a field of competition with the West in which the East could shine. Yet, her study also reveals that socialist blind politics went beyond propaganda. When socialist activists joined the international blind movement, they initiated an exchange of experiences that profoundly impacted everyone involved. Not only did the international blind movement turn global disability welfare from philanthropy to self-advocacy, but it also gave East European and Soviet activists a new set of ideas and technologies to improve their own national movements. By analyzing the intersection of disability and politics, Ambassadors of Social Progress enables a deeper, bottom-up understanding of cultural relations during the Cold War. Galmarini significantly contributes to the little-studied history of disability in socialist Europe, and ultimately shows that disability activism did not start as an import from the West in the post-1989 period, but rather had a long and meaningful tradition that was rooted in the socialist system of welfare and needed to be reinvented when this system fell apart.

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194

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Cornell University Press

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150177378X

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9781501773785

Metal Ions in Biology and Medicine

Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Metal Ions in Biology and Medicine, Held in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, Europe, on May 18-22, 2004

By: Maria Agnes Cser

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Metal Ions in Biology and Medicine

Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Metal Ions in Biology and Medicine, Held in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, Europe, on May 18-22, 2004

By: Maria Agnes Cser

8th International Congress on Metal Ions in Biology and Medicine, Budapest, Hungary 18 to 22 May 2004. Every two years, the world's leading specialists meet exchange information on the most recent advances in understanding metals and the part they play in treating some diseases. This book aims to help advance our knowledge of the role of metal ions in a number of fields in biology and medicine.

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John Libbey Eurotext

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2742005226

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9782742005222

Health effects of atmospheric particles in the Nordic and Arctic regions

Sectoral contributions and impacts of future changes in anthropogenic emissions and climate

By: Im, Ulas,Sand, Maria,Makkonen, Risto,Christensen, Jesper H.,Nielsen, Ole-Kenneth,Brandt, Jørgen

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Health effects of atmospheric particles in the Nordic and Arctic regions

Sectoral contributions and impacts of future changes in anthropogenic emissions and climate

By: Im, Ulas,Sand, Maria,Makkonen, Risto,Christensen, Jesper H.,Nielsen, Ole-Kenneth,Brandt, Jørgen

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2021-533/ The main objective of the FREYA has been to assess the contributions of individual manmade emission sources versus long-range transported air pollution on surface pollutant levels over the Nordic region in order to identify the major emission sectors for mitigation of adverse health impacts due to air pollution and how the premature mortality will change in the future under different emission scenarios. Manmade atmospheric particles have been estimated to lead to 5,000 – 9,000 premature deaths in the Nordic countries. Residential combustion is responsible for 50% to 80% of the country’s self-contribution to surface fine atmospheric particles in the Nordic countries. Mitigation of manmade emissions in future can lead to up to 60% reductions in number of premature deaths due to exposure to fine atmospheric particles.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289370955

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9789289370950

Argentine Democracy

The Politics of Institutional Weakness

By: Steven Levitsky,Maria Victoria Murillo

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Argentine Democracy

The Politics of Institutional Weakness

By: Steven Levitsky,Maria Victoria Murillo

During the 1990s Argentina was the only country in Latin America to combine radical economic reform and full democracy. In 2001, however, the country fell into a deep political and economic crisis and was widely seen as a basket case. This book explores both developments, examining the links between the (real and apparent) successes of the 1990s and the 2001 collapse. Specific topics include economic policymaking and reform, executive-legislative relations, the judiciary, federalism, political parties and the party system, and new patterns of social protest. Beyond its empirical analysis, the book contributes to several theoretical debates in comparative politics. Contemporary studies of political institutions focus almost exclusively on institutional design, neglecting issues of enforcement and stability. Yet a major problem in much of Latin America is that institutions of diverse types have often failed to take root. Besides examining the effects of institutional weakness, the book also uses the Argentine case to shed light on four other areas of current debate: tensions between radical economic reform and democracy; political parties and contemporary crises of representation; links between subnational and national politics; and the transformation of state-society relations in the post-corporatist era. Besides the editors, the contributors are Javier Auyero, Ernesto Calvo, Kent Eaton, Sebasti&án Etchemendy, Gretchen Helmke, Wonjae Hwang, Mark Jones, Enrique Peruzzotti, Pablo T. Spiller, Mariano Tommasi, and Juan Carlos Torre.

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Penn State Press

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0271027169

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9780271027166

The Right to Be Helped

Deviance, Entitlement, and the Soviet Moral Order

By: Maria Cristina Galmarini

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Deviance, Entitlement, and the Soviet Moral Order

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Northern Illinois University Press

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Ambassadors of Social Progress

A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War

By: Maria Cristina Galmarini

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A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War

By: Maria Cristina Galmarini

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The Right to Be Helped

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Metal Ions in Biology and Medicine

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Health effects of atmospheric particles in the Nordic and Arctic regions

Health effects of atmospheric particles in the Nordic and Arctic regions

Argentine Democracy

Argentine Democracy

The Right to Be Helped

The Right to Be Helped

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