Dual-Career Couples and the American Dream: Self-Sufficiency and Achievement

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The Soviet social system and its transformation during the post-Stalin period have exerted a tremendous impact on the Soviet family and related institutions. Trends in the Soviet Union across the last three decades have affected the Soviet family in different ways--some of these trends, like the decay of socialism and the rise in privatization, havelcd to the strengthening of the family, while other trends, such as the demoralization of Soviet society and rampant individualism unrestrained by social values, have encouraged lifestyles which are incompatible with even the mildest family bonds. Glasnost and the liberalization of Soviet society, plus the transition from a harsh, despotic, Orwellian state militantly hostile to private life to a society where the individual’s rights are at least partially recognized by the state, had led to a radical weakening of all social ties, including those of the family.

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