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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784664603321

Titolo

Russia's sputnik generation [[electronic resource] ] : Soviet baby boomers talk about their lives / / translated and edited by Donald J. Raleigh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington ; ; Indianapolis, : Indiana University Press, c2006

ISBN

9786612072949

1-282-07294-3

0-253-11214-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies

Altri autori (Persone)

RaleighDonald J

Disciplina

947/.43

Soggetti

Interviews - Russia (Federation) - Saratov

Oral history - Russia (Federation) - Saratov

Saratov (Russia) History 20th century

Saratov (Russia) Social conditions

Saratov (Russia) Biography

Soviet Union History 1953-1985

Soviet Union History 1985-1991

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 (p. [281]-285) and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Sasha the Muscovite" / Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Konstantinov -- "Back then I really wanted to join the party" / Natalia Valentinovna Altukhova -- "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 -- "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.

Sommario/riassunto

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. Reach