Though uncontrollable forces seem to threaten the constitutional break up of the Soviet Union, the central government headed by Mikhail Gorbachev continues to promulgate large scale changes, which are intended to be binding on all 15 republics. A case in point is the draft law entitled "The principles of legislation of the USSR and union republics on the financing of health care." Published tow...

Over the past 20 years Soviet research in regeneration has undergone a shift in emphasis from work on amphibians to mammals. In that period several distinct schools of thought have arisen, and often there has been considerable controversy as to the nature of certain regenerative processes. At present most mammalian tissues and organs are being studied with respect to natural regenerative capaci...

Thomas H. Naylor is Professor of Economics and Business Administration a t the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He is also Director of the Center for Corporate Economics and Strategy at Duke and Managing Director of The Naylor Group, a management consulting group which specializes in strategic planning. He was' the founder of SIMPLAN Systems, Inc., and served as its president for ni...

This work provides a landscape on the manner in which Cuba and the Soviet Union had cooperated in the computing field between 1972 and 1990. It highlights some of the important milestones between the two nations including Cuban membership on the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, the COMECOM, and its activities in the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls. It also address...

For several years, some of the countries of the former Soviet Union have experienced the fastest growing HIV epidemic in the world, with the vast majority of reported infections contracted through injecting drug use. However, most governments of the region have been slow to recognize the severity of the problem. The scope and coverage of governmental HIV/AIDS programmes have remained very limit...

PURPOSE We examined the adjustment to societal change following the fall of communism in a group of Soviet war veterans from Russia and the Ukraine. The focus of the study was on the dynamics of identity development, and especially generativity, in a period of intense social upheaval. DESIGN AND METHODS We administered measures of self-esteem, life satisfaction, and generativity to 50 World W...

This paper offers an in-depth review of the Soviet hit film Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears (1979). Focusing on its female characters, it analyses gender dynamics that prevailed Union at time and narrative impact had plot. The article is divided into three subsections: a brief historical political context, depiction state equality Union, as well power existed both professional domestic sphere, ...

After World War II, the large-scale Soviet agricultural production model was spread into the satellite states of CEE (Central and Eastern Europe). In spite of this, planned economic agricultural production was far from homogenous. This diversity – appearing inside and outside the Soviet Union – is worthwhile exploring, here represented by two of the most (in relative terms) productive agricultu...