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Author Lowenthal, Leo

Title Living Through the Soviet System
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (286 pages)
Series Memory and Narrative
Memory and narrative.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction; PART I Creating Soviet Society; 2 The cultural model of the Russian popular classes and the transition to a market economy; 3 Equality in poverty: the symbolic meaning of kommunalki in the 1930s-50s; 4 Coping with revolution: the experiences of well-to-do Russian families; PART II Personal and Family Life; 5 'What kind of sex can you talk about?': acquiring sexual knowledge in three Soviet generations
6 Family models and transgenerational influences: grandparents, parents and children in Moscow and Leningrad from the Soviet to the market era7 'Coming to stand on firm ground': the making of a Soviet working mother; 8 The strength of small freedoms: a response to Ionin, by way of stories told at the dacha; PART III The Marginal and the Successful; 9 Memory and survival in Stalin's Russia: old believers in the Urals during the 1930s-50s; 10 The returned of the repressed: survival after the Gulag
11 Success stories from the margins: Soviet women's autobiographical sketches from the late Soviet period12 Epilogue: researching with interview sources on Soviet Russia; Bibliography; Index
Notes Print version record
Subject Manners and customs
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125858
Subject Soviet Union
Form Electronic book
Author Bertaux, Daniel
Rotkirch, Anna
ISBN 9781351508421
1351508423