Disaster and Crisis Management in Transitional Societies: Commonalities and Peculiarities

Abstract

The dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s had myriad social consequences, many of which were unintended. This chapter mainly discusses one such consequence: the effect of the disappearance of the Soviet Union and the reemergence of Russia on disaster planning and crisis management not only in Russia, but also in Eastern Europe societies that had been in the Soviet sphere of influence.