03651nam 2200793Ia 450 991082907680332120240514043335.00-19-991239-41-283-29991-797866132999180-19-987680-0(CKB)2550000000055666(EBL)784769(OCoLC)759686468(SSID)ssj0000555531(PQKBManifestationID)12196826(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000555531(PQKBWorkID)10518633(PQKB)10017708(Au-PeEL)EBL784769(CaPaEBR)ebr10502870(CaONFJC)MIL329991(MiAaPQ)EBC784769(EXLCZ)99255000000005566620110222d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSoviet baby boomers an oral history of Russia's Cold War generation /Donald J. Raleigh1st ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press20111 online resource (434 p.)Oxford oral history seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-931123-4 0-19-974434-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; JKL; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZDonald 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 increasinOxford oral history series.Baby boom generationSoviet UnionHistoryFamiliesSoviet UnionHistoryYouthSoviet UnionHistoryCold WarSocial aspectsSoviet UnionSocial changeSoviet UnionHistoryOral historySoviet UnionInterviewsRussia (Federation)Soviet UnionSocial conditions1945-1991Moscow (Russia)BiographySaratov (Russia)BiographyBaby boom generationHistory.FamiliesHistory.YouthHistory.Cold WarSocial aspectsSocial changeHistory.Oral historyInterviews305.24409470Raleigh Donald J845829MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910829076803321Soviet baby boomers3965408UNINA