| Description |
x, 277 pages ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Routledge studies in memory and narrative ; 13 |
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Routledge studies in memory and narrative ; 13
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| Contents |
The cultural model of the Russian popular classes and the transition to a market economy / Daniel Bertaux, in collaboration with Marina Malysheva -- Equality in poverty : the symbolic meaning of kommunalki in the 1930s-50s / Victoria Semenova -- Coping with revolution : the experiences of well-to-do Russian families / Ekaterina Foteeva -- 'What kind of sex can you talk about?' : acquiring sexual knowledge in three Soviet generations / Anna Rotkirch -- Family models and transgenerational influences : grandparents, parents and children in Moscow and Leningraad from the Soviet to the market era / Victoria Semenova and Paul Thompson -- 'Coming to stand on firm ground' : the making of a Soviet working mother / Anna Rotkirch -- The strength of small freedoms : a response to Ionin, by way of stories told at the dacha / Naomi Roslyn Galtz -- Memory and survival in Stalin's Russia : old believers in the Urals during the 1930s-50s / Irina Korovushkina Paert -- The returned [sic] of the repressed : survival after the Gulag / Nanci Adler -- Success stories from the margins : Soviet women's autobiographical sketches from the late Soviet period / Marianne Liljestr©œm -- Epilogue : Researching with interview sources on Soviet Russia / Daniel Bertaux, Paul Thompson and Anna Rotkirch |
| Summary |
"On Living Through Soviet Russia analyses, through personal accounts, how Russian society operated at a day-to-day level. It contrasts the integration of different social groups: the descendants of the pre-revolutionary upper classes, the new industrial working class or religious minorities. It examines in turn the implications of family relationships, working mothers, absent fathers and caretaking grandmothers; patterns of eating together and of housing; the secrecy of sexuality; the suppression of religion; and the small freedoms such as growing vegetables at weekends on a dacha plot. Because of its basis in direct testimonies, the book reveals in a highly readable and direct style the meaning for ordinary men and women of living through those seven decades of state socialism."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Simultaeously published in the USA and Canada |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Communism and families -- Soviet Union -- Case studies.
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Oral history.
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| SUBJECT |
USSR -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125852 -- Case studies. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001484
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USSR -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125858 -- Case studies. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001484
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USSR http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126312 -- Moral conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006096 -- Case studies.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001484
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Author |
Rotkirch, Anna, 1966-
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Bertaux, Daniel.
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Thompson, Paul, 1935-
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| LC no. |
2003047266 |
| ISBN |
0415309662 : |
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