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DESCRIPTION:Twentieth-century Eastern European socialist economies promised
  comprehensive welfare benefits “from the cradle to the grave\,” including
  generous state pensions\, and had some of the lowest pension ages in the 
 world\; however\, the expense of this agenda is often pointed to as a long
 -term cause of the collapse of these economies and its legacy as a drain o
 n post-communist successors states’ budgets. Focusing on the Soviet exampl
 e\, this talk will look at the pitfalls of pension financing in the postwa
 r period. WWII increased the burden of pension financing three-fold in the
  Soviet Union\, whose economy was devastated and whose pensioner populatio
 n was dramatically increased by the war and by several decades of disrupti
 ve state policies. In particular\, it will look at how the October 1956 pe
 nsion law tried to solve the problem of providing for the socioeconomicall
 y vulnerable while preserving financial incentives to be maximize one’s li
 fetime labor contributions. It also points to some of the reasons why the 
 current Putin government has faced a massive backlash as it attempts to re
 nege on some of the pension guarantees of the Soviet period.\n\nThis webin
 ar is for Max Bell School MPP students only. See our Fall 2020 Policy Lect
 ure Series for other webinars that are open to the public.\n\nAbout Kristy
  Ironside\n\nKristy Ironside is a historian of modern Russia and the Sovie
 t Union. She is especially interested in the political\, economic\, and so
 cial history of Russia and the USSR’s twentieth century. Her first book\, 
 A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union\
 , is forthcoming with Harvard University Press in 2021. This book looks at
  how money\, an ideologically problematic ‘vestige of capitalism\,’ was mo
 bilized by the Soviet government in the intertwined projects of recovering
  from the Second World War’s damage and building a prosperous communist so
 ciety. This project has spun off articles looking at related economic and 
 social phenomena in Soviet history\, exploring the balance of coercion and
  incentives\, Stalinist and Khrushchev-era economic thinking\, and the nat
 ure of the postwar Soviet welfare state. Her articles have appeared in Kri
 tika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History\, The Soviet and Post-S
 oviet Review\, Slavic Review\, Europe-Asia Studies\, and The Journal of So
 cial History. Ironside is also beginning a new project looking at Russia a
 nd the USSR’s fraught relationship to international copyright. This resear
 ch is funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight 
 Development Grant and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Société et Cultur
 e\, soutien à la recherche pour la relève professorale. The resulting book
  will examine changing notions of intellectual property\, profit\, and rig
 hts\, as well as the Russian state’s engagement with international legal n
 orms\, from the late 19th century\, through the Soviet period\, to the ret
 urn of capitalism in Russia after 1991.\n\nDr. Ironside is open to working
  with graduate students on projects exploring Soviet and Eastern European 
 social\, political\, and economic history\, as well as international histo
 ry.\n
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SUMMARY:Socialist (In)security: The Politics of Pensions in Communist and P
 ost-Communist Russia
URL:/maxbellschool/channels/event/socialist-insecurity
 -politics-pensions-communist-and-post-communist-russia-324633
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