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Perestroyka, Social Justice and Soviet Public Opinion

David S. Mason, Butler University
Svetlana Sydorenko

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Abstract

Examines Mikhail Gorbachev's perspective of social justice that points to the unfairness of slothful workers' receiving the same pay as productive fellow workers. Focus on egalitarian version of social justice; Large number of people at bottom of social ladder; Justice in communist ideology; Aspects of the debate; Public opinion and social justice; Political justice or market justice?

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David S. Mason and Svetlana Sydorenko. "Perestroyka, Social Justice and Soviet Public Opinion" Problems of Communism 39.November/December (1990): 34-43.
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david_mason/42