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Soviet baby boomers : an oral history of Russia's Cold War generation / Donald J. Raleigh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Raleigh, Donald J.
- Series:
- Oxford oral history series.
- Oxford oral history series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baby boom generation--Soviet Union--History.
- Baby boom generation.
- Families--Soviet Union--History.
- Families.
- Youth--Soviet Union--History.
- Youth.
- Cold War--Social aspects--Soviet Union.
- Cold War.
- Social change--Soviet Union--History.
- Social change.
- Oral history--Soviet Union.
- Oral history.
- Interviews--Russia (Federation).
- Interviews.
- Soviet Union--Social conditions--1945-1991.
- Soviet Union.
- Moscow (Russia)--Biography.
- Moscow (Russia).
- Saratov (Russia)--Biography.
- Saratov (Russia).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (434 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 increasin
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; 1 THE REAL NUCLEAR THREAT: Soviet Families in Transition; 2 OVERTAKING AMERICA IN SCHOOL: Educating the Builders of Communism; 3 "UNCONSCIOUS AGENTS OF CHANGE": Soviet Childhood Creates the Cynical Generation; 4 THE BABY BOOMERS COME OF AGE; 5 LIVING SOVIET DURING THE BREZHNEV-ERA STAGNATION; 6 "BUT THEN EVERYTHING FELL APART": Gorbachev Remakes the Soviet Dream; 7 SURVIVING RUSSIA'S GREAT DEPRESSION; CONCLUSION: "It's they who have always held Russia together"; Appendix: The Baby Boomers; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J
- KL; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-991239-4
- 1-283-29991-7
- 9786613299918
- 0-19-987680-0
- OCLC:
- 759686468
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