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E ialist revolution has become yoked to the industrial revolution.
is fact of ‘socialism in conditions of backwardness' is important for
nderstanding the nature and development of welfare in these
Esocieties. Third. our discussion is focused on one socialist country.
mamely the U.S.S.R. True, some of the East European countries are
‘industrially more advanced than the Soviet Union and provide a better
example of welfare in advanced socialist society. But these countries.
e.g. East Germany and Czechoslovakia, have gone through a long
pg:-iod of capitalist development. Their social services have a long
history stretching back into the pre-socialist period. and three decades
of socialism have not necessarily transformed the legacy of the past.
Moreover. data on these countries are not as accessible as those on
the U.S.S.R. Looking further afield, China and Cuba are certainly
relevant as examples of non-soviet type of socialist development. But
these countries are less developed industrially and their experience of
socialist government is comparatively short. For these reasons we
take the U.S.S.R. as the ‘case study‘ of socialist welfare. Clearly we
cannot generalise about socialist society from a single case. But in so
far as we can speak of ‘socialist’ society as a type of social structure.
the case of the U.S.S.R. is relevant for understanding the nature of
welfare in socialist society. Finally, we must point out that as far as
socialist countries are concerned. neither factual evidence nor dis»
cussions concerning welfare are plentiful. This means that many of
our interpretations and generalisations have to be seen as tentative