Soviet Society in the Era of Lpb

In Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964-85, Neringa Klumbyte and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova bring together scholarship examining the social and cultural life of the USSR and Eastern Europe from 1964 to 1985.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Was Late Socialism?
By Neringa Klumbyte and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
1. Plutonium Enriched: Making Bombs and Middle-Classes
By Kate Brown
2. A Middle Class without Capitalism? Socialist Ideology and Post-Collectivist Discourse in the Late Soviet Era
By Anna Paretskaya
3. "Cultural Wars" in the Closed City of Soviet Ukraine, 1959-82
By Sergei I. Zhuk
4. Soviet Ethical Citizenship: Morality, the State, and Laughter in Late Soviet Lithuania
By Neringa Klumbyte
5. Pluralizing Practices in Late-Socialist Moscow: Russian Alternative Practitioners Reclaim and Redefine Individualism
By Larisa Honey
6. Football in the Era of "Changing Stagnation": The Case of Spartak Moscow
By Robert Edelman
7. Beyond the Genres of Stagnation: Reading the Allure of I. Grekova's The Hotel Manager
By Benjamin M. Sutcliffe
8. Raped with Politburon: Bawdy Humor and Disempowerment in Yuz Aleshkovsky's Prose
By Olga Livshin
Afterword: Postcard from Berlin: Rethinking the Juncture of Late Socialism and Late Liberalism in Europe
By Dominic Boyer
Bibliography
About the Authors
Index

About the author

Edited by Neringa Klumbyte and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova - Contributions by Dominic Boyer; Kate Brown; Robert Edelman; Larisa Honey; Olga Livshin; Anna Paretskaya; Benjamin M. Sutcliffe and Sergei I. Zhuk

Summary

In Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964–85, Neringa Klumbyte and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova bring together scholarship examining the social and cultural life of the USSR and Eastern Europe from 1964 to 1985.

Product details

• Assisted by: Neringa Klumbyte (Editor), Gulnaz Sharafutdinova (Editor), Sharafutdinova Gulnaz (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2014
• EAN: 9781498503860
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0386-0
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Regional / International studies, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Marxism & Communism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era