| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 299 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Series |
Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies |
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Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- "Sasha the Muscovite" / Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Konstantinov -- "Back then I really wanted to join the party" / Natalia Valentinovna Altukhova (maiden name Pronina) -- "We grew up in a normal time" / Natalia P. -- "Our entire generation ... welcomed perestroika" / Arkadii Olegovich Darchenko -- "I saw the life of my country, and thereby my own, from a variety of perspectives" / Natalia Aleksandrovna Belovolova (maiden name Ianichkina) -- "It's very hard to be a woman in our country" / Olga Vladimirovna Kamaiurova -- "I came to understand things, but only gradually" / Aleksandr Vladimirovich Trubnikov -- "People have lost a great deal in terms of their confidence in tomorrow" / Gennadii Viktorovich Ivanov |
| Summary |
Russia's Sputnik Generation presents the life stories of eight 1967 graduates of School No. 42 in the Russian city of Saratov. Born in 1949/50, these four men and four women belong to the first generation conceived during the Soviet Union's return to "normality" following World War II. Well educated, articulate, and loosely networked even today, they were first-graders the year the USSR launched Sputnik, and grew up in a country that increasingly distanced itself from the excesses of Stalinism. Reaching middle age during the Gorbachev Revolution, they negotiated the transition to a Russian-style market economy and remain active, productive members of society in Russia and the diaspora. In candid interviews with Donald J. Raleigh, these Soviet "baby boomers" talk about the historical times in which they grew up, but also about their everyday experiences -- their family backgrounds; childhood pastimes; favorite books, movies, and music; and influential people in their lives. These personal testimonies shed valuable light on Soviet childhood and adolescence, on the reasons and course of perestroika, and on the wrenching transition that has taken place since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-285) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the Russian |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Interviews -- Russia (Federation) -- Saratov
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Oral history -- Russia (Federation) -- Saratov
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Interviews
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Oral history
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Social conditions
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Saratov (Russia) -- History -- 20th century
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Saratov (Russia) -- Social conditions
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Saratov (Russia) -- Biography
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Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125817
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Soviet Union -- History -- 1985-1991. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91005836
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| Subject |
Russia (Federation) -- Saratov
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Soviet Union
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Raleigh, Donald J.
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| ISBN |
9780253112149 |
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0253112141 |
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