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Soviet Society And Culture Essays In Honor Of Vera S. Dunham
290 Pages
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Routledge
304 Pages
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Routledge
290 Pages
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Routledge
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Academic analysis has not always kept pace with the dramatic changes that have occurred in the USSR since Stalin’s time, for objective study has often been overshadowed—especially in the 1980s—by publicity concerning the negative aspects of the “Evil Empire.” Recently, however, because of reforms initiated by Gorbachev, the dynamics of the Soviet system have come into sharper focus. This book... Read more
Foreword -- Trends in Soviet Society -- The Little Deal: Brezhnev’s Contribution to Acquisitive Socialism -- “Middle-class Values” and Soviet Life in the 1930s -- Cell Mutation in Soviet Society: The Family -- Urban Leisure Culture in Post-Stalin Russia: Stability as a Social Problem? -- Shifting Strata: Ethnicity, Gender, and Work in Soviet Central Asia -- Literary Perspectives -- Trifonov: The Historian as Artist -- The Transformations of Babi Yar -- Abram Tertz: Dissidence, Diffidence, and Russian Literary Tradition -- The Language of Ideology -- The Uses and Abuses of Russian History -- Lighting the Road Behind: Soviet Historiography of the Russian Revolutionary Movement -- Developed Socialism: Brezhnev’s Contribution to Soviet Ideology -- Sources of Soviet Stability -- The State-run Economy: Stability or Ossification? An Essay on the Soviet Production System -- The Conditions of Stability in the Soviet Union
Biography
"Terry L. Thompson is an analyst and manager at the U.S. Department of Defense. Richard Sheldon is dean of humanities and professor of Russian at Dartmouth College."
