Living Through the Soviet System (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
286
Utgivningsdatum
2005-01-01
Upplaga
1st pbk. ed
Förlag
Routledge
Medarbetare
Thompson, Paul / Rotkirch, Anna
Illustratör/Fotograf
black & white illustrations
Illustrationer
black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
155 x 230 x 20 mm
Vikt
400 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
23:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9781412804875

Living Through the Soviet System

av Paul Thompson
Häftad,  Engelska, 2005-01-01
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For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in Russia, talking about the past, either political or personal, became dangerous. The situation changed dramatically with the new policy of glasnost at the end of the 1980s. The result was a flood of reminiscence, almost nightly on television, and more formally collected by new Russian oral history groups and also by Western researchers. Daniel Bertaux and Paul Thompson both began collecting life story and family history interview material in the early 1990s, and this book is the outcome of their initiative. Living Through the Soviet System analyzes, through personal accounts, how Russian society operated on a day-to-day level. It contrasts the integration of different social groups: the descendents of the pre-revolutionary upper classes, the new industrial working class, or the ethnically marginalized Russian Jews. 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 sex; the suppression of religion; and the small freedoms of growing vegetables on 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 dark decades of a great European nation. Because of the centrality of Soviet Russia to the history of the twentieth-century world, this book will be of interest to a wide range of readers. It will be of importance to students, researchers and teachers of history and sociology, as well as specialists in East European and other communist societies.
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"Read critically, it can reveal both the traditional assumptions that still underlie much study of the Soviet era and early efforts to question those assumptions. The epilogue offers a very useful survey of interview projects conducted during and after the Soviet era." ---Frederick C. Corney, Slavic Review "Read critically, it can reveal both the traditional assumptions that still underlie much study of the Soviet era and early efforts to question those assumptions. The epilogue offers a very useful survey of interview projects conducted during and after the Soviet era." --Frederick C. Corney, Slavic Review "Living Through the Soviet System is therefore an especially valuable work. This book is an anthology of articles by an international collective of authors, many of whom have participated in generating the new sources. . . . Many of the life histories tell us all as much about the present--that is, the early-to-mid 1990s--as they do about the past. This is however, a strength, given that they capture a pivotal moment in time." --Lynne Viola, Seer "Read critically, it can reveal both the traditional assumptions that still underlie much study of the Soviet era and early efforts to question those assumptions. The epilogue offers a very useful survey of interview projects conducted during and after the Soviet era." --Frederick C. Corney, Slavic Review "Living Through the Soviet System is therefore an especially valuable work. This book is an anthology of articles by an international collective of authors, many of whom have participated in generating the new sources. . . . Many of the life histories tell us all as much about the present--that is, the early-to-mid 1990s--as they do about the past. This is however, a strength, given that they capture a pivotal moment in time." --Lynne Viola, Seer -Read critically, it can reveal both the traditional assumptions that still underlie much study of the Soviet era and early efforts to question those assumptions. The epilogue offers a very useful survey of interview projects conducted during and after the Soviet era.- --Frederick C. Corney, Slavic Review -Living Through the Soviet System is therefore an especially valuable work. This book is an anthology of articles by an international collective of authors, many of whom have participated in generating the new sources. . . . Many of the life histories tell us all as much about the present--that is, the early-to-mid 1990s--as they do about the past. This is however, a strength, given that they capture a pivotal moment in time.- --Lynne Viola, Seer

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Daniel Bertaux is directeur de recherches at the Centre d'Etudes des Mouvements Sociaux, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Paul Thompson is research professor in sociology at the University of Essex and fellow at the Institute of Community Studies in London. Anna Rotkirch is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Helsinki.

Innehållsförteckning

Notes on contributors, 1 Introduction, PART I Creating Soviet Society, PART II Personal and Family Life, PART III The Marginal and the Successful, Bibliography, Index

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