This book traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the fascinating life stories of the country's first post-World War II, Cold War generation. For this book, Raleigh has interviewed sixty 1967 graduates of two "magnet" secondary schools that offered intensive instruction in English, one in Moscow and one in provincial Saratov. Part of the generation that began school the year the country launched Sputnik into space, they grew up during the Cold War, but in a Soviet Union increasingly distanced from the excesses of Stalinism. Raleigh is one of the first scholars of post-1945 Soviet history to draw extensively on oral history, a particularly useful approach in studying a country where the boundaries between public and private life remained porous and the state sought to peer into every corner of people's lives. During and after the dissolution of the USSR, Russian citizens began openly talking about the
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Condition: new. Pages: 544 Language: Russian. Kniga Donalda Rejli posvjaschena sovetskomu analogu amerikanskogo pokolenija bejbi-buma - detjam kholodnoj vojny, kotorye sejchas igrajut zametnuju rol v sotsialnoj zhizni. Vnimatelno vslushivajas v rasskazy moskovskikh i saratovskikh vypusknikov anglijskikh spetsshkol o svoem zhiznennom opyte, avtor pokazyvaet, pochemu sovetskie bejbi-bumery, poluchivshie maksimum iz togo, chto mogla predlozhit sovetskaja sistema, ne buduchi ee protivnikami i ne ozhidaja ee krushenija, vse zhe okazalis vpolne gotovy prinjat gorbachevskuju perestrojku i nachat novuju zhizn v novoj Rossii i za rubezhom. Analiziruja ustnuju istoriju sovetskikh bejbi-bumerov, avtor vyjavljaet vnutrennie mekhanizmy, razrushivshie sovetskuju sistemu. Donald Rejli - professor Universiteta Severnoj Karoliny (SSHA). 9785444802717. Seller Inventory # 10-634260
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