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Soviet Baby Boomers traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the life stories of the country's first post-World War II, Cold War generation.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Real Nuclear Threat: Soviet Families in Transition
- 2. Overtaking America in School: Educating the Builders of Communism
- 3. "Unconscious Agents of Change": Soviet Childhood Creates the Cynical Generation
- 4. The Baby Boomers Come of Age
- 5. Living Soviet during the Brezhnev-Era Stagnation
- 6. "But then everything fell apart": Gorbachev Remakes the Soviet Dream
- 7. Surviving Russia's Great Depression
- Conclusion: "It's they who have always held Russia together"
- Notes
- Appendix
- Bibliography
About the author
Donald J. Raleigh is Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Revolution on the Volga, Experiencing Russia's Civil War, and Russia's Sputnik Generation.
Summary
Soviet Baby Boomers traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the life stories of the country's first post-World War II, Cold War generation.
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[Donald J. Raleigh] has created a sophisticated and nuanced cultural history. His book, eschewing cliché about the necessary and inevitable stasis of Russian society or its long-term yen for authoritarianism, at the same time puts forward thought-provoking, and at times unexpected, material about the lasting and deep impact of the late Soviet era on the present day.
