{"product_id":"the-right-to-be-helped-9780875804972","title":"The Right to Be Helped","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoesn''t an educated personsimple and working, sick and with a sick childdoesn''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. \u003ci\u003eThe Right to Be Helped\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria Galmarini-Kabala shows how definitions of state assistance and who was entitled to it provided a platform for policy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Right to Be Helped\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent account of the complex nature of help and its construction in the context of historical events and individual stories.\u003c\/p\u003e * Europe-Asia Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Right to Be Helped\u003c\/i\u003e brings together significant new archival information on the Soviet state's practice of social assistance, and provides a valuable addition to the scholarship on marginality, disability, and welfare in the USSR.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Russian Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a very valuable addition to our understanding of Soviet history, precisely because it gives a voice to those who were excluded and overlooked.\u003c\/p\u003e * Canadian Slavonic Papers *","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151205200215,"sku":"9780875804972","price":44.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780875804972.jpg?v=1762960425","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-right-to-be-helped-9780875804972","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}