This thesis explores how and why two capitalistic American corporations were granted access to the Soviet Union's internal market. For decades communist leadership railed against what they termed "cheap bourgeois consumption," ...

This thesis examines the generational gap between second generation of SovietAmericans and their Soviet-immigrant predecessors. I use the term 'Soviet' as an umbrella that encompasses not only ethnic Russian identity but ...

In Russia today women use traditional forms of birth control at unusually high rates, whereas, conversely their use of modern contraceptives is unusually low. During the Soviet period, women's access to modern contraceptive ...