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Living Soviet in Ukraine from Stalin to Maidan : under the falling Red Star in Kharkiv / by Michael T. Westrate.
Van Pelt Library DK508.95.K53 W47 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Westrate, Michael T., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oral history.
- Interviews.
- Social change.
- History.
- Ethnicity--Political aspects.
- Communism--Social aspects.
- Communism.
- Soldiers--Family relationships.
- Soldiers.
- Kharkiv (Ukraine)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Kharkiv (Ukraine).
- Kharkiv (Ukraine)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Kharkiv (Ukraine)--Biography.
- Soldiers--Ukraine--Kharkiv--Interviews.
- Soldiers--Family relationships--Ukraine--Kharkiv--History--20th century.
- Communism--Social aspects--Ukraine--Kharkiv--History--20th century.
- Ethnicity--Political aspects--Ukraine--Kharkiv--History--20th century.
- Ethnicity.
- Social change--Ukraine--Kharkiv--History--20th century.
- Interviews--Ukraine--Kharkiv.
- Oral history--Ukraine--Kharkiv.
- Manners and customs.
- Social conditions.
- Ukraine--Kharkiv.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]
- Summary:
- "This book examines the experience of citizens living in the U.S.S.R., focusing on a group of military colonels and their families in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Drawing from oral accounts, it describes their shifting social, cultural, and political realities and explores how ideological, professional, gender, and national imperatives were internalized, transformed, or rejected"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Lived environment, lived history : Kharkiv and the academy
- Men and the military : "New Soviet military men"
- Women and gender : "That's women's work!"
- Ethnicity and nationality : "My address is the Soviet Union!"
- Religion : "Ours is the religion of our grandmothers"
- Conclusions: Living Soviet
- Epilogue
- Appendix A. Interviewees
- Appendix B. Questionnaire for first-round interviews (translated from Russian)
- Appendix C. Questionnaire for follow-up interviews.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Westrate, Michael T. Living Soviet in Ukraine from Stalin to Maidan.
- ISBN:
- 9781498523400
- 1498523404
- OCLC:
- 942745058
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