Russia's Sputnik Generation Soviet Baby Boomers Talk about Their Lives

Name: Russia's Sputnik Generation Soviet Baby Boomers Talk about Their Lives
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ISBN: 9780253218421

ISBN-10: 025321842X

ISBN-13: 9780253218421

Edition: 2006

Authors: Donald J. Raleigh, Donald J. Raleigh

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The lives and views of average educated Russians in the second half of the 20th century

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 6/2/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.144
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.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



"Sasha the Muscovite"




"Back then I really wanted to join the party"




"We grew up in a normal time"




"Our entire generation ... welcomed perestroika"




"I saw the life of my country, and thereby my own, from a variety of perspectives"




"It's very hard to be a woman in our country"




"I came to understand things, but only gradually"




"People have lost a great deal in terms of their confidence in tomorrow"



Selected Bibliography


Index