The "children of Perestroika" : Moscow teenagers talk about their lives and the future / Deborah Adelman ; narratives translated by Deborah Adelman, Fay Greenbaum, and Sharon Mckee
Moscow teenagers : becoming the "children of Perestroika" -- The workers' intelligentsia / Tanya -- "Going straight to work means giving up a part of your freedom" / Olya -- A country of paradox / Lena -- "We are not afraid of anything" / Ilya -- A patriotic toughening up / Maxim -- "It's time we really build socialism" / Yelena -- Becoming a worker : Dima, Lyosha, Alexei -- Bringing a little bread back home / Dima -- "If I could just meet that one person ..." / Lyosha -- "All that militarism doesn't attract me" / Alexei -- "There's nothing a Russian woman can't do / Natasha -- "The ideals my parents and grandparents grew up with are collapsing" / Katya
Summary
Portrays present-day life in the Soviet Union from the perspective of a group of Moscow teenagers
