Social and economic transformations in Russia have had an influence on all spheres of society. The value orientations of young people have been influenced by the market economy, and this has led to a new type of adaptive behavior, in which preference is given to material value orientations, growth of individualism, pragmatism, and hedonistic…

Outlines lessons learned during many missions undertaken in countries of the former Soviet Union and former Yugoslavia that were designed to set up psychosocial assistance programs to teach coping skills to children adversely affected by armed conflicts and the socioeconomic transition process from a planned to a market economy. (SM)

This issue presents a recent Soviet monograph on urban youth. It covers the beginning of independence in young people's lives, the functioning of youth in the national economy during the first years after graduation from general education school, and the young machine builders of Leningrad. (Author/ND)