Soviet baby boomers [[electronic resource] ] : an oral history of Russia's Cold War generation / / Donald J. Raleigh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781988903321
• Autore: Raleigh Donald J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 0-19-991239-4; 1-283-29991-7; 9786613299918; 0-19-987680-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (434 p.)
• Collana: Oxford oral history series
• Disciplina: 305.24409470
• Soggetti: Baby boom generation - Soviet Union - History; Families - Soviet Union - History; Youth - Soviet Union - History; Cold War - Social aspects - Soviet Union; Social change - Soviet Union - History; Oral history - Soviet Union; Interviews - Russia (Federation); Soviet Union Social conditions 1945-1991; Moscow (Russia) Biography; Saratov (Russia) Biography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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