A Report on Social Security Programs in the Soviet Union

The problem of organizing geriatric care is attracting more and more attention of the health and social security authorities of developed countries, which is primarily due to the progressive aging of their population. According to UN statistical forecasts, in the industrialized countries of the world, the number of people aged 60 and over will increase by 54% in the period from 1970 to 2000, with an overall population growth of only 21%. According to the same data, the percentage of people over 60 years old in the Soviet Union during the same period will increase from 11.5 to 17, that is, more than 7b part of the country's population. Particularly numerous will be the contingents of the population aged 75 and over, who for health reasons are often deprived of the ability to self-service and who need well-organized medical and social assistance.

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Prerequisites for the formation of a social security philosophy in pre-revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union

Transbaikal State University Journal ◽

10.21209/2227-9245-2020-26-9-24-32 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 (9) ◽

pp. 24-32

Author(s):

S. Kononov ◽

Keyword(s):

Soviet Union ◽

Social Security ◽

Special Role ◽

Russian Science ◽

External Threats ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

Russian State ◽

The Social ◽

Long Time ◽

The Individual

The article is devoted to the analysis of the formation of the social security philosophy on the territory of the Russian state, where, as the authors show, the ideas about the need to ensure a decent level of existence for the individual and society have already been known since the beginning of the XIX century. The aim of the article is to trace how the understanding of security has changed in Russian science. The article uses the method of phenomenological and comparative analysis, with the help of which the study of domestic security concepts was carried out. The first task posed by the authors is to consider the discussion about safe development among pre-revolutionary authors, the result of which was the formation of an idea about the special role of the Russian state in ensuring the security of society. The second task is to consider the Soviet concept of security, centered round the concept of a state system for providing armed protection against external enemies. As the authors have shown, this concept was characterized by the refusal to take into account the influence of social, economic and spiritual factors of security. The third task was to analyze the post-Soviet concept of security, within which the relationship between society and the state was rethought, which ceased to interfere indefinitely in the social and personal spheres of life and rejected a simplified understanding of the problem of ensuring security, which for a long time was considered only as counteraction to external threats

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AFRICAN DIRECTION IN THE FOREIGN POLICYOF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Political Science Issues ◽

10.35775/psi.2019.32.2.012 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

O. JU

Keyword(s):

Soviet Union ◽

Social Security ◽

Russian Federation ◽

Local People ◽

African Continent ◽

Western Countries ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

Previous Level ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

Vacant Niches

In his article, the author attempts to scientifically analyze and understand the problems of cooperation between Russia and the countries of the African continent in the diplomatic, economic, trade, ideological and other areas of cooperation. The construction of relations between the USSR and the countries of the African continent began after the end of the WW2 and was caused, first of all, by the need to find allies in various parts of the planet. In the postwar years and until 1990, cooperation developed most actively, in several directions at once. Specialists from the USSR were engaged in the training of the local people, building of factories and the economy as a whole, social security and resolution of the regional disputes, etc. But, unfortunately, since the collapse of the Soviet Union and to the present day, cooperation has not been restored to the previous level, primarily due to the fact that the vacant niches were occupied by the Western countries.

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