1st Edition

Living Through the Soviet System

By Paul Thompson Copyright 2004
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

287 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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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