On living through Soviet Russia
By: edited by Daniel Bertaux, Paul Thompson and Anna Rotkirch.
Contributors: Bertaux, Daniel.; Thompson, Paul Richard, 1935-; Rotkirch, Anna, 1966-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Communism and family -- Soviet Union -- Case studies; Oral history; Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- Case studies; Soviet Union -- Social life and customs -- Case studies; Soviet Union -- Moral conditions -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "On Living Through Soviet Russia analyses, through personal accounts, how Russian society operated at a day-to-day level. It contrasts the integration of different social groups: the descendants of the pre-revolutionary upper classes, the new industrial working class or religious minorities. It examines in turn the implications of family relationships, working mothers, absent fathers and caretaking grandmothers; patterns of eating together and of housing; the secrecy of sexuality; the suppression of religion; and the small freedoms such as growing vegetables at weekends on a dacha plot. Because of its basis in direct testimonies, the book reveals in a highly readable and direct style the meaning for ordinary men and women of living through those seven decades of state socialism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Simultaeously published in the USA and Canada.