Abstract
The distinction between charity and self-help is of great significance. Nevertheless, it is impossible to classify all voluntary organizations precisely. Chapter 4 suggested that one impact of both the economic crisis and the influx of foreign aid in 1990–1 was to turn erstwhile self-help groups into distributors of charity. Moreover, there were a number of organizations which from the outset embraced both aims. The overlap created the potential for tension and misunderstanding, although it could also be productive to bring together professionals and clients or different generations in a collaborative effort. The ‘hybrid’ organizations which most clearly straddled the charity/self-help divide are considered at the beginning of this chapter.
‘There are many of us, and together we are a force.’ 1
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Komarova (1986) p. 6.
Tolz (21.9.90) p. 30.
Kirbasova pp. 230–1; Moskovskie novosti, no. 8, 1990, 8–9.
See A. White (1997); Shreeves (21.9.90) pp. 6–7; Tolz (21.9.90) p. 30.
Aleksandrov; ‘Solntse svobody’; ‘Vernut’ rodine’; Galeotti (1995) pp. 94–6.
The letter is in Nadezhda, no. 1, 1990, p. 3.
Avdeeva, Evdokimov and Shipulina questionnaires; interview with G. Gerasimova (Moscow), 1992.
See Galeotti (1995) chs 5 (pp. 93–4) and 6.
On an alienated group, see A. White (1989). See V. Konovalov, who suggests that a ‘Vietnam syndrome’ was common. Galeotti, however, believes that the majority of afgantsy were able to integrate back into Soviet society and preferred to do so rather than to identify with the veterans’ movement. Galeotti (1995), pp. 103–4.
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White, A. (1999). Self-Help Organizations. In: Democratization in Russia under Gorbachev, 1985–91. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27372-0_6
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