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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807910003321

Titolo

Soviet society in the era of late socialism, 1964-1985 / / edited by Neringa Klumbytė and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Lexington Books, 2013

ISBN

0-7391-7584-X

1-299-14140-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KlumbytėNeringa <1974->

SharafutdinovaGulnaz

Disciplina

947.085/3

Soggetti

Socialism - Soviet Union

Soviet Union Civilization

Soviet Union Social conditions 1945-1991

Soviet Union Social life and customs

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

Introduction: what was late socialism? / Neringa Klumbytė and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova -- Plutonium enriched: making bombs and middle-classes / Kate Brown -- A middle class without capitalism? socialist ideology and post-collectivist discourse in the late Soviet era / Anna Paretskaya -- "Cultural wars" in the closed city of Soviet Ukraine, 1959-82 / Sergei I. Zhuk -- Soviet ethical citizenship: morality, the state, and laughter in late Soviet Lithuania / Neringa Klumbytė -- Pluralizing practices in late-socialist Moscow: Russian alternative practitioners reclaim and redefine individualism / Larisa Honey -- Football in the era of "changing stagnation": the case of Spartak Moscow / Robert Edelman -- Beyond the genres of stagnation: reading the allure of I. Grekova's "The hotel manager" / Benjamin M. Sutcliffe -- Raped with politburon: bawdy humor and disempowerment in Yuz Aleshkovsky's prose / Olga Livshin -- Afterword: postcard from Berlin: rethinking the juncture of late socialism and late liberalism in Europe / Dominic Boyer.

Sommario/riassunto

In Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964-85, Neringa Klumbyte and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova bring together scholarship examining the social and cultural life of the USSR and Eastern Europe



from 1964 to 1985. This interdisciplinary and comparative study explores topics such as the Soviet middle class, individualism, sexuality, health, late-socialist ethics, and civic participation. The socialist state was not simply an oppressive institution that dictated how to live and what to think-it also responded to and was s