Children of Perestroika

This work provides an examination of US refugee policy since the 1960s, particularly as it has been applied to Cuba, Haiti and Central America. The authors also address world-wide refugee problems, proposing ideas for the 21st century. Chapter 1 Moscow Teenagers: Becoming the “Children of Perestroika”; Chapter 2 The Workers’ Intelligentsia, Tanya; Chapter 3 “Going Straight to Work Means Giving up a Part of Your Freedom”, Olya; Chapter 4 A Country of Paradox, Lena; Chapter 5 “We are not Afraid of Anything”, Ilya; Chapter 6 A Patriotic Toughening Up, Maxim; Chapter 7 “Its Time We Really Build Socialism”, Yelena; Chapter 8 Becoming a Worker: Dima, Lyosha, Alexei; Chapter 9 Bringing a Little Bread Back Home, Dima; Chapter 10 “If I Could Just Meet That One Person …”, Lyosha; Chapter 11 “All that Militarism doesn’t Attract Me”, Alexei; Chapter 12 “There’s Nothing a Russian Woman Can’t Do”, Natasha; Chapter 13 “The Ideals My Parents and Grandparents Grew up with are Collapsing”, Katya;