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Russia's Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk about Their Lives
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- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- Yes
- ISBN
- 025321842X
- Subject Area
- Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Publication Name
- Russia's Sputnik Generation : Soviet Baby Boomers Talk about Their Lives
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Subject
- Historiography, Cultural Heritage, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Sociology / General
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Series
- Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 16.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN-10
025321842X
ISBN-13
9780253218421
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038273969
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Publication Name
Russia's Sputnik Generation : Soviet Baby Boomers Talk about Their Lives
Language
English
Subject
Historiography, Cultural Heritage, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Sociology / General
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Series
Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2005-026057
Reviews
"... this is an extremely informative book. It is also highly readable, partly because of its novelistic qualities: the characters of both Raleigh and his informants shine through the text. The introduction to each interview includes a lively account of the interviewee's behaviour during the event as well as a narrative of Raleigh's various adventures, such as getting lost on the way, in the labyrinth of Moscow University, or being jumped on by an unannounced pet rat. The book is beautifully illustrated with photographs of the informants, for example, at May Day parades, on the beach, or dressed for graduation ball. At the very end, hiding beyond the Index, are photographs of Raleigh himself in 1967 and 2005. A valuable feature of the book is its sparing but deft drawing of parallels between Russians and Americans of the same generation, leading the reader to reflect on how far the book tells a specifically Russian story or, conversely, one more universal." -Anne White, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages University of Bath, Slavonic and East European Review, Volume 86, number 4, October 2008, . . . this is an extremely informative book. It is also highly readable, partly because of its novelistic qualities: the characters of both Raleigh and his informants shine through the text. The introduction to each interview includes a lively account of the interviewee's behaviour during the event as well as a narrative of Raleigh's various adventures, such as getting lost on the way, in the labyrinth of Moscow University, or being jumped on by an unannounced pet rat. The book is beautifully illustrated with photographs of the informants, for example, at May Day parades, on the beach, or dressed for graduation ball. At the very end, hiding beyond the Index, are photographs of Raleigh himself in 1967 and 2005. A valuable feature of the book is its sparing but deft drawing of parallels between Russians and Americans of the same generation, leading the reader to reflect on how far the book tells a specifically Russian story or, conversely, one more universal.Volume 86, number 4, October 2008, ". . . this is an extremely informative book. It is also highly readable, partly because of its novelistic qualities: the characters of both Raleigh and his informants shine through the text. The introduction to each interview includes a lively account of the interviewee's behaviour during the event as well as a narrative of Raleigh's various adventures, such as getting lost on the way, in the labyrinth of Moscow University, or being jumped on by an unannounced pet rat. The book is beautifully illustrated with photographs of the informants, for example, at May Day parades, on the beach, or dressed for graduation ball. At the very end, hiding beyond the Index, are photographs of Raleigh himself in 1967 and 2005. A valuable feature of the book is its sparing but deft drawing of parallels between Russians and Americans of the same generation, leading the reader to reflect on how far the book tells a specifically Russian story or, conversely, one more universal.Volume 86, number 4, October 2008"--Anne White, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages University of Bath, ... this is an extremely informative book. It is also highly readable, partly because of its novelistic qualities: the characters of both Raleigh and his informants shine through the text. The introduction to each interview includes a lively account of the interviewee's behaviour during the event as well as a narrative of Raleigh's various adventures, such as getting lost on the way, in the labyrinth of Moscow University, or being jumped on by an unannounced pet rat. The book is beautifully illustrated with photographs of the informants, for example, at May Day parades, on the beach, or dressed for graduation ball. At the very end, hiding beyond the Index, are photographs of Raleigh himself in 1967 and 2005. A valuable feature of the book is its sparing but deft drawing of parallels between Russians and Americans of the same generation, leading the reader to reflect on how far the book tells a specifically Russian story or, conversely, one more universal.--Anne White, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages University of Bath"Slavonic and East European Review" (01/01/2008), "... this is an extremely informative book. It is also highly readable,partly because of its novelistic qualities: the characters of both Raleigh and hisinformants shine through the text. The introduction to each interview includesa lively account of the interviewee's behaviour during the event as well as anarrative of Raleigh's various adventures, such as getting lost on the way, inthe labyrinth of Moscow University, or being jumped on by an unannouncedpet rat. The book is beautifully illustrated with photographs of the informants,for example, at May Day parades, on the beach, or dressed for graduationball. At the very end, hiding beyond the Index, are photographs of Raleighhimself in 1967 and 2005. A valuable feature of the book is its sparing but deftdrawing of parallels between Russians and Americans of the same generation,leading the reader to reflect on how far the book tells a specifically Russianstory or, conversely, one more universal." -- Anne White, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages University of Bath, Slavonic and East European Review, Volume 86, number 4, October 2008, "... this is an extremely informative book. It is also highly readable, partly because of its novelistic qualities: the characters of both Raleigh and his informants shine through the text. The introduction to each interview includes a lively account of the interviewee's behaviour during the event as well as a narrative of Raleigh's various adventures, such as getting lost on the way, in the labyrinth of Moscow University, or being jumped on by an unannounced pet rat. The book is beautifully illustrated with photographs of the informants, for example, at May Day parades, on the beach, or dressed for graduation ball. At the very end, hiding beyond the Index, are photographs of Raleigh himself in 1967 and 2005. A valuable feature of the book is its sparing but deft drawing of parallels between Russians and Americans of the same generation, leading the reader to reflect on how far the book tells a specifically Russian story or, conversely, one more universal." -- Anne White, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages University of Bath, Slavonic and East European Review, Volume 86, number 4, October 2008
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
947/.43
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "Sasha the Muscovite": Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Konstantinov 2. "Back then I really wanted to join the party": Natalia Valentinovna Altukhova (maiden name Pronina) 3. "We grew up in a normal time": Natalia P. 4. "Our entire generation . . . welcomed perestroika": Arkadii Olegovich Darchenko 5. "I saw the life of my country, and thereby my own, from a variety of perspectives": Natalia Aleksandrovna Belovolova (maiden name Ianichkina) 6. "It's very hard to be a woman in our country": Olga Vladimirovna Kamaiurova 7. "I came to understand things, but only gradually": Aleksandr Vladimirovich Trubnikov 8. "People have lost a great deal in terms of their confidence in tomorrow": Gennadii Viktorovich Ivanov Selected Bibliography Index
Synopsis
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., 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
DK651.S4R87 2006
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