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EBOOK Soviet Baby Boomers:An Oral History of Russia's Cold War Generation

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199912391
EAN: 5531605EEB
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Stron: 432
Data wydania: 2011
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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        "e;magnet"e; 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, "e;overtaking"e; 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.

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