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Author |
: Donald J. Raleigh |
Publisher |
: OUP USA |
Total Pages |
: 435 |
Release |
: 2012-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199744343 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199744343 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Soviet Baby Boomers by : Donald J. Raleigh
Soviet Baby Boomers traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the life stories of the country's first post-World War II, Cold War generation. Illuminating a critical generation of people who had remained largely faceless up until now, the book reveals what it meant to "live Soviet" during the twilight of the Soviet empire.
Author |
: Donald J. Raleigh |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 2011-11-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199912391 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199912394 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Soviet Baby Boomers by : Donald J. Raleigh
Donald Raleigh's Soviet Baby Boomers traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the fascinating life stories of the country's first post-World War II, Cold War generation. For this book, Raleigh has interviewed sixty 1967 graduates of two "magnet" secondary schools that offered intensive instruction in English, one in Moscow and one in provincial Saratov. Part of the generation that began school the year the country launched Sputnik into space, they grew up during the Cold War, but in a Soviet Union increasingly distanced from the excesses of Stalinism. In this post-Stalin era, the Soviet leadership dismantled the Gulag, ruled without terror, promoted consumerism, and began to open itself to an outside world still fearful of Communism. Raleigh is one of the first scholars of post-1945 Soviet history to draw extensively on oral history, a particularly useful approach in studying a country where the boundaries between public and private life remained porous and the state sought to peer into every corner of people's lives. During and after the dissolution of the USSR, Russian citizens began openly talking about their past, trying to make sense of it, and Raleigh has made the most of this new forthrightness. He has created an extraordinarily rich composite narrative and embedded it in larger historical narratives of Cold War, de-Stalinization, "overtaking" America, opening up to the outside world, economic stagnation, dissent, emigration, the transition to a market economy, the transformation of class, ethnic, and gender relations, and globalization. Including rare photographs of daily life in Cold War Russia, Soviet Baby Boomers offers an intimate portrait of a generation that has remained largely faceless until now.
Author |
: Donald J. Raleigh |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 2013-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199311231 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199311234 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Soviet Baby Boomers by : Donald J. Raleigh
Soviet Baby Boomers traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the life stories of the country's first post-World War II, Cold War generation.
Author |
: Donald J. Raleigh |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2006-06-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0253112141 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253112149 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Russia's Sputnik Generation by : Donald J. Raleigh
Russia's Sputnik Generation presents the life stories of eight 1967 graduates of School No. 42 in the Russian city of Saratov. Born in 1949/50, these four men and four women belong to the first generation conceived during the Soviet Union's return to "normality" following World War II. Well educated, articulate, and loosely networked even today, they were first-graders the year the USSR launched Sputnik, and grew up in a country that increasingly distanced itself from the excesses of Stalinism. Reaching middle age during the Gorbachev Revolution, they negotiated the transition to a Russian-style market economy and remain active, productive members of society in Russia and the diaspora. In candid interviews with Donald J. Raleigh, these Soviet "baby boomers" talk about the historical times in which they grew up, but also about their everyday experiences -- their family backgrounds; childhood pastimes; favorite books, movies, and music; and influential people in their lives. These personal testimonies shed valuable light on Soviet childhood and adolescence, on the reasons and course of perestroika, and on the wrenching transition that has taken place since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Author |
: Marko Dumančić |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 413 |
Release |
: 2020-12-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781487531850 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1487531850 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Men Out of Focus by : Marko Dumančić
Men Out of Focus charts conversations and polemics about masculinity in Soviet cinema and popular media during the liberal period – often described as "The Thaw" – between the death of Stalin in 1953 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The book shows how the filmmakers of the long 1960s built stories around male protagonists who felt disoriented by a world that was becoming increasingly suburbanized, rebellious, consumerist, household-oriented, and scientifically complex. The dramatic tension of 1960s cinema revolved around the male protagonists’ inability to navigate the challenges of postwar life. Selling over three billion tickets annually, the Soviet film industry became a fault line of postwar cultural contestation. By examining both the discussions surrounding the period’s most controversial movies as well as the cultural context in which these debates happened, the book captures the official and popular reactions to the dizzying transformations of Soviet society after Stalin.
Author |
: Bruce Cannon Gibney |
Publisher |
: Hachette Books |
Total Pages |
: 593 |
Release |
: 2017-03-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780316395809 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0316395803 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Generation of Sociopaths by : Bruce Cannon Gibney
In his "remarkable" (Men's Journal) and "controversial" (Fortune) book -- written in a "wry, amusing style" (The Guardian) -- Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the Boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity. In A Generation of Sociopaths, Gibney examines the disastrous policies of the most powerful generation in modern history, showing how the Boomers ruthlessly enriched themselves at the expense of future generations. Acting without empathy, prudence, or respect for facts--acting, in other words, as sociopaths--the Boomers turned American dynamism into stagnation, inequality, and bipartisan fiasco. The Boomers have set a time bomb for the 2030s, when damage to Social Security, public finances, and the environment will become catastrophic and possibly irreversible--and when, not coincidentally, Boomers will be dying off. Gibney argues that younger generations have a fleeting window to hold the Boomers accountable and begin restoring America.
Author |
: Victor Brooks |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781566637244 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1566637244 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Boomers by : Victor Brooks
Brooks chronicles the peaceful children's invasion of America that occurred from Dr. Spock to Woodstock. The author explores the home life, leisure activities, and school environment of children who grew up during the Cold War years.
Author |
: Archie Brown |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 441 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192880529 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192880527 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gorbachev Factor by : Archie Brown
The author writes about Gorbachev, both as the statesman and as the man. He explores how an ordinary man can become a world leader, wielding enormous power.
Author |
: Maria Rogacheva |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2017-07-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107196360 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107196361 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev by : Maria Rogacheva
A major new contribution to understanding the transition of Soviet society from Stalinism to a more humane model of socialism.
Author |
: Choi Chatterjee |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 443 |
Release |
: 2015-01-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253012609 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253012600 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Everyday Life in Russia by : Choi Chatterjee
A panoramic, interdisciplinary survey of Russian lives and “a must-read for any scholar engaging with Russian culture” (The Russian Review). In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, distinguished scholars survey the cultural practices, power relations, and behaviors that characterized Russian daily life from pre-revolutionary times through the post-Soviet present. Microanalyses and transnational perspectives shed new light on the formation and elaboration of gender, ethnicity, class, nationalism, and subjectivity. Changes in consumption and communication patterns, the restructuring of familial and social relations, systems of cultural meanings, and evolving practices in the home, at the workplace, and at sites of leisure are among the topics explored. “Offers readers a richly theoretical and empirical consideration of the ‘state of play’ of everyday life as it applies to the interdisciplinary study of Russia.” —Slavic Review “An engaging look at a vibrant area of research . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice “Volumes of such diversity frequently miss the mark, but this one represents a welcomed introduction to and a ‘must’ read for anyone seriously interested in the subject.” —Cahiers du Monde russe