Donald J. Raleigh

Soviet Baby Boomers

An Oral History of Russia's Cold War Generation

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Produktbeschreibung

Soviet Baby Boomers traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the life stories of the country's first post-World War II, Cold War generation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780199311231
• ISBN-10: 0199311234
• Artikelnr.: 37256267

Autorenporträt

Donald J. Raleigh is Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Revolution on the Volga, Experiencing Russia's Civil War, and Russia's Sputnik Generation.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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"
* Notes
* Appendix
* Bibliography