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On the question of reasons for beginning of Рerestroika (based on USSR and Siberian materials) [PDF]

open access: yesОмский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2021
The article is devoted to the study of the reasons for the beginning of perestroika in the USSR (1985–1991). The purpose of the article is to show that democratic transformations began not as a result of the backwardness of isolation in the USSR, but ...
S. A. Velichko, V. A. Kutepov
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MIDDLE CLASS IN UKRAINE: GOVERNMENT OR OPPOSITION?

open access: yesBaltic Journal of Economic Studies, 2023
The purpose of this article is to define the middle class as the representative of the public interest and the social foundation of democracy in Ukraine.
Denys Yakovlev   +2 more
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Middle Class America in Africa

open access: yesAkademisk Kvarter, 2012
This paper studies the American perception of a lack of modernity in the postcolonial world. As usual, the lack of modernity allows for an idealized, romanticized vision of a simpler life without the ugliness of modern, Western life.
Thomas F. Halloran
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An Exceptional Case of Women’s Self-Advocacy in Interwar Hungary: Cécile Tormay

open access: yesHungarian Cultural Studies, 2020
A Hungarian writer who became a prominent public figure in the Horthy era, Cécile Tormay’s (1875-1937) fame and success was principally due to her memoir, Bujdosó könyv [‘The Hiding Book’], a work published in 1920-21 that depicts the two Hungarian ...
Judit Kádár
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The social geography of childcare: 'making up' the middle class child [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Childcare is a condensate of disparate social forces and social processes. It is gendered and classed. It is subject to an excess of policy and political discourse. It is increasingly a focus for commercial exploitation. This is a paper reporting on work
Bagguley P   +19 more
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"Ordinary, the same as anywhere else": notes on the management of spoiled identity in 'marginal' middle class neighbourhoods [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Urban sociologists are becoming increasingly interested in neighbourhood as a source of middle-class identity. Particular emphasis is currently being given to two types of middle-class neighbourhood; gentrified urban neighbourhoods of ‘distinction’ and ...
Bauman, Z.   +37 more
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Japan: Society of middle class

open access: yesRussian Japanology Review, 2022
Despite the economic difficulties of the last two and a half decades, Japan remains to be one of the richest countries in the world. In addition, it is also one of the most prosperous countries - both in terms of distribution of the results of economic ...
I. P. Lebedeva
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About the middle class in Russia

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Public Administration, 2017
The article is devoted to consideration of the formation of the middle class in Russia and its importance for a stable and prosperous development of the state. Describes the traits of the middle class, attempt to summarize the criteria for the assignment
Nikolai S Stolyarov
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Statistical Inference on the Canadian Middle Class

open access: yesEconometrics, 2018
Conventional wisdom says that the middle classes in many developed countries have recently suffered losses, in terms of both the share of the total population belonging to the middle class, and also their share in total income.
Russell Davidson
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Les classes moyennes tunisiennes entre mythe et réalité.Éléments pour une mise en perspective historique

open access: yesL’Année du Maghreb, 2011
In Tunisia, middle classes were ever-present in the political discourse. The regime justified their economic and social policies with the continued expansion of the middle class that included, according to them, 80% of Tunisians.
Baccar Gherib
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