Reconsidering Stagnation in the Brezhnev Era - Ideology and Exchange

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Dina Fainberg and Artemy M. Kalinovsky - Contributions by Sari Autio-Sarasmo; Natalya Chernyshova; Courtney Doucette; Juliane Fürst; Anna Geltzer; Simon Huxtable; Simo Mikkonen; Christian Noack; Andrey Shcherbenok and Lewis H. Siegelbaum Klappentext This collection brings together an interdisciplinary array of scholars of late socialism in the U.S.S.R. and challenges the dominant narrative of stagnation during the Brezhnev era. It demonstrates that the political and intellectual class remained ideologically committed, recognized systemic challenges, and embarked on a creative search for solutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Stagnation and its Discontents, Artemy M. Kalinovsky and Dina Fainberg Part I: Ideology between Public and Private Spheres Chapter 1: Consumers as Citizens: Revisiting the Question of Public Disengagement in the Brezhnev era, Natalya Chernyshova Chapter 2: The Life and Death of Brezhnev's Thaw: Changing Values in Soviet Journalism after Khrushchev, 1964-1968, Simon Huxtable Chapter 3: People on the Move during the "Era of Stagnation": The Rural Exodus in the RSFSR during the 1960s-80s, Lewis H. Siegelbaum Chapter 4: Brezhnev's "Little Freedoms": Tourism, Individuality, and Mobility in the Late Soviet Period, Christian Noack Chapter 5: Everything Was over before It Was No More: Decaying Civilization in Late Stagnation Cinema, Andrey Shcherbenok Part II: The Soviet Union and the West: Exchange, Imagination, and Competition Chapter 6: Stagnation or Not? The Brezhnev leadership and the East-West Interaction, Sari Autio-Sarasmo Chapter 7: Stagnant Science? The Planning and Coordination of Bi

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• Authors: Dina Kalinovsky Fainberg
• Assisted by: Dina Fainberg (Editor), Fainberg Dina (Editor), Artemy Kalinovsky (Editor), Artemy M Kalinovsky (Editor), Artemy M. Kalinovsky (Editor), Kalinovsky Artemy M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.04.2016
• EAN: 9781498529938
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-2993-8
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; History, European History, Politics & government, Empires & historical states, Politics and government, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Other Geographical Groupings, Oceans & Seas, HISTORY / Russia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet