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...

I agreed because I felt ashamed for our great country. —Nikolai Vorontsov on why he decided to accept the position as chief of the USSR State Committee for the Protection of Nature The Gorbachev administration went further than any of its predecessors in candidly acknowledging the extent of environmental damage in the Soviet Union and the need for new approaches to solving the problem. In addit...

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...

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...

he development of the Russian federal system has been marked by conflict, co-optation, and consensus. Emerging from the generally unitary Russian republic within a formally federal but largely unitary Soviet Union, post-Soviet Russia began its development as a federal system with little experience and few institutional structures salvageable from the earlier system. The patchwork Soviet-era con...