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1 online resource (vii, 251 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-236) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: what was late socialism? / Neringa Klumbytė and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova -- Plutonium enriched: making bombs and middle-classes / Kate Brown -- A middle class without capitalism? socialist ideology and post-collectivist discourse in the late Soviet era / Anna Paretskaya -- "Cultural wars" in the closed city of Soviet Ukraine, 1959-82 / Sergei I. Zhuk -- Soviet ethical citizenship: morality, the state, and laughter in late Soviet Lithuania / Neringa Klumbytė -- Pluralizing practices in late-socialist Moscow: Russian alternative practitioners reclaim and redefine individualism / Larisa Honey -- Football in the era of "changing stagnation": the case of Spartak Moscow / Robert Edelman -- Beyond the genres of stagnation: reading the allure of I. Grekova's "The hotel manager" / Benjamin M. Sutcliffe -- Raped with politburon: bawdy humor and disempowerment in Yuz Aleshkovsky's prose / Olga Livshin -- Afterword: postcard from Berlin: rethinking the juncture of late socialism and late liberalism in Europe / Dominic Boyer. |
| Summary |
"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."--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Soviet Union -- Civilization.
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Soviet Union. |
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Civilization. |
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Socialism -- Soviet Union.
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Socialism. |
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Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1945-1991.
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1945-1991 |
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Social conditions. |
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Soviet Union -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Klumbytė, Neringa, 1974-
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Sharafutdinova, Gulnaz.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Soviet society in the era of late socialism, 1964 - 1985 Lanham : Lexington Boks, [2013] 9780739175835 (cloth : alkaline paper) (DLC) 2012028530 |
| ISBN |
9780739175842 ebook |
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073917584X |
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9780739175835 cloth : alkaline paper |
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9780739175842 electronic |
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0739175831 |
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9781299141407 |
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1299141404 |
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1498503861 |
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9781498503860 |
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