Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964-1985 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Sharafutdinova, Gulnaz; Klumbyte, Neringa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What did it mean to be a Soviet citizen in the 1970s and 1980s? How can we explain the liberalization that preceded the collapse of the USSR? This period in Soviet history is often depicted as stagnant with stultified institutions and the oppression of socialist citizens. However, the socialist state was not simply an oppressive institution that dictated how to live and what to think-it also responded to and was shaped by individuals' needs. 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. This interdisciplinary and comparative study explores topics such as the Soviet middle class, individualism, sexuality, health, late-socialist ethics, and civic participation. Examining this often overlooked era provides the historical context for all post-socialist political, economic, and social developments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739175842
• Artikelnr.: 37835161

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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
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