LEADER 03651nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910829076803321 005 20240514043335.0 010 $a0-19-991239-4 010 $a1-283-29991-7 010 $a9786613299918 010 $a0-19-987680-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000000055666 035 $a(EBL)784769 035 $a(OCoLC)759686468 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000555531 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12196826 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000555531 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10518633 035 $a(PQKB)10017708 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL784769 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10502870 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL329991 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC784769 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000055666 100 $a20110222d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSoviet baby boomers $ean oral history of Russia's Cold War generation /$fDonald J. Raleigh 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (434 p.) 225 1 $aOxford oral history series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-931123-4 311 $a0-19-974434-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aKL; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z 330 $aDonald Raleigh's Soviet Baby Boomers traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the fascinating life stories of the country's first post-World War II, Cold War generation. For this book, Raleigh has interviewed sixty 1967 graduates of two ""magnet"" secondary schools that offered intensive instruction in English, one in Moscow and one in provincial Saratov. Part of the generation that began school the year the country launched Sputnik into space, they grew up during the Cold War, but in a Soviet Union increasin 410 0$aOxford oral history series. 606 $aBaby boom generation$zSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aFamilies$zSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aYouth$zSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aCold War$xSocial aspects$zSoviet Union 606 $aSocial change$zSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aOral history$zSoviet Union 606 $aInterviews$zRussia (Federation) 607 $aSoviet Union$xSocial conditions$y1945-1991 607 $aMoscow (Russia)$vBiography 607 $aSaratov (Russia)$vBiography 615 0$aBaby boom generation$xHistory. 615 0$aFamilies$xHistory. 615 0$aYouth$xHistory. 615 0$aCold War$xSocial aspects 615 0$aSocial change$xHistory. 615 0$aOral history 615 0$aInterviews 676 $a305.24409470 700 $aRaleigh$b Donald J$0845829 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910829076803321 996 $aSoviet baby boomers$93965408 997 $aUNINA