Market reforms in the post-socialist countries have brought into sharp focus the problem of interconnection and interaction between the economy and the social environment. The economy is inseparable from politics and the operation of the political system, from the state of the social...

The history of the world of socialism, which is today represented by a group of European, Asian, and Latin American states, dates back to the October Revolution in Russia. It laid the foundation for socialist reforms of society that were also extended to other countries at the end of World War...