Living Soviet in Ukraine from Stalin to Maidan
Subtitle: under the falling Red Star in Kharkiv
By: by Michael T. Westrate
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781498523400
Subjects: Social life and customs; Communism; Interviews; Social change; Ethnicity; Soldiers; Social conditions; Family relationships; Oral history; Biography; History
Description: "This book examines the experience of citizens living in the U.S.S.R., focusing on a group of military colonels and their families in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Drawing from oral accounts, it describes their shifting social, cultural, and political realities and explores how ideological, professional, gender, and national imperatives were internalized, transformed, or rejected"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lived environment, lived history : Kharkiv and the academy; title: Men and the military : "New Soviet military men"; title: Women and gender : "That's women's work!"; title: Ethnicity and nationality : "My address is the Soviet Union!"; title: Religion : "Ours is the religion of our grandmothers"; title: Conclusions: Living Soviet; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix A. Interviewees; title: Appendix B. Questionnaire for first-round interviews; title: Appendix C. Questionnaire for follow-up interviews.