EBOOK Soviet Baby Boomers:An Oral History of Russia's Cold War Generation
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An Oral History of Russia's Cold War Generation
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. It is based on interviews with sixty 1967 graduates of two "e;magnet"e; secondary schools that offered intensive instruction in English, one in Moscow and one in Saratov. Illuminating a critical generation of people who had remained largely faceless up until now, the book reveals what it meant to "e;live Soviet"e; during the twilight of the Soviet empire.
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. It is based on interviews with sixty 1967 graduates of two "e;magnet"e; secondary schools that offered intensive instruction in English, one in Moscow and one in Saratov. Illuminating a critical generation of people who had remained largely faceless up until now, the book reveals what it meant to "e;live Soviet"e; during the twilight of the Soviet empire.