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Author Westrate, Michael T., author.

Title Living Soviet in Ukraine from Stalin to Maidan : under the falling Red Star in Kharkiv / by Michael T. Westrate.

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 231 pages)
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Summary "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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Lived environment, lived history : Kharkiv and the academy -- Men and the military : "New Soviet military men" -- Women and gender : "That's women's work!" -- Ethnicity and nationality : "My address is the Soviet Union!" -- Religion : "Ours is the religion of our grandmothers" -- Conclusions: Living Soviet -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Interviewees -- Appendix B: Questionnaire for first-round interviews (translated from Russian) -- Appendix C: Questionnaire for follow-up interviews.
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Subject Kharkiv (Ukraine) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Kharkiv (Ukraine) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Kharkiv (Ukraine) -- Biography.
Soldiers -- Ukraine -- Kharkiv -- Interviews.
Soldiers.
Ukraine -- Kharkiv.
Genre/Form Interviews.
Subject Soldiers -- Family relationships -- Ukraine -- Kharkiv -- History -- 20th century.
Soldiers -- Family relationships.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Communism -- Social aspects -- Ukraine -- Kharkiv -- History -- 20th century.
Communism -- Social aspects.
Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Ukraine -- Kharkiv -- History -- 20th century.
Social change -- Ukraine -- Kharkiv -- History -- 20th century.
Interviews -- Ukraine -- Kharkiv.
Communism.
Oral history -- Ukraine -- Kharkiv.
Ethnicity -- Political aspects.
Social change.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
Interviews.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
Oral history.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Manners and customs.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
History.
Biographies.
Interviews.
Other Form: Print version: Westrate, Michael T. Living Soviet in Ukraine from Stalin to Maidan. Lanham : Lexington Books, 2016 9781498523400 (DLC) 2016007138
ISBN 9781498523417 (electronic book)
1498523412 (electronic book)
9781498523400 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1498523404 (cloth) (alkaline paper)