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

Name: Soviet Baby Boomers An Oral History of Russia's Cold War Generation
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ISBN: 9780199311231

ISBN-10: 0199311234

ISBN-13: 9780199311231

Edition: 2013

Authors: Donald J. Raleigh

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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 "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…

Book details

List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 436
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.25" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Donald J. Raleigh is Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is author, editor, or translator of numerous books, most recently Experiencing Russia's Civil War: Politics, Society, and Revolutionary Culture in Saratov, 1917--1922.