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This chapter deals with the common and contrasting features of the social welfare system in the USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. It focuses on the welfare system as it developed after the seizure of political power by the Communists (in the USSR in the post-NEP era). Recent developments in the welfare system in the countries under review are the topic of other chapters.
I would like to thank Professors J. Chapman, E. Clayton, Z. Fallenbuchl, H. Flakierski and J. Timár, co-contributors to this volume, for valuable comments to my original paper which has helped to improve the final draft.
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Adam, J. (1991). Social Contract. In: Adam, J. (eds) Economic Reforms and Welfare Systems in the USSR, Poland and Hungary. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11690-4_1
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